Rigoberta Menchú

**Rigoberta Menchú Tum** (; lahir 9 Januari 1959) ialah aktivis politik dan hak asasi K'iche dari Guatemala. Menchú telah mendedikasikan hidupnya untuk mempublikasikan hak-hak kaum feminis asal Guatemala semasa dan selepas Perang Saudara Guatemala (1960-1996), dan untuk mempromosikan hak-hak pribumi di negara ini.

Beliau menerima Hadiah Keamanan Nobel pada tahun 1992 dan Anugerah Putera Asturias pada tahun 1998. Beliau ialah subjek dari biografi testimoni I, *Rigoberta Menchú* (1983) dan penulis karya autobiografi, *Crossing Border*s. Menchú merupakan Duta Muhibah UNESCO. Beliau juga telah menjadi tokoh dalam parti politik pribumi dan bertanding untuk Presiden Guatemala pada tahun 2007 dan 2011.

## Rujukan

## Bibliografi
*Ament, Gail. "Recent Maya Incursions into Guatemalan Literary Historiography". *Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History*. Eds. Mario J. Valdés & Djelal Kadir. 3 Vols. Vol 1: *Configurations of Literary Culture*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004: I: 216–215.
*Arias, Arturo. "After the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy: Lessons Learned About the Nature of Subalternity and the Specifics of the Indigenous Subject" *[[MLN]]* 117.2 (2002): 481–505.
*Beverley, John. "The Real Thing (Our Rigoberta)" *Modern Language Quarterly* 57:2 (June 1996): 129–235.
*Brittin, Alice A. "Close Encounters of the Third World Kind: Rigoberta Menchu and Elisabeth Burgos's Me llamo Rigoberta Menchu". *Latin American Perspectives*, Vol. 22, No. 4, Redefining Democracy: Cuba and Chiapas (Autumn, 1995), pp.&nbsp;100–114.
*De Valdés, María Elena. "The Discourse of the Other: Testimonio and the Fiction of the Maya." *Bulletin of Hispanic Studies* (Liverpool), LXXIII (1996): 79–90.
*Feal, Rosemary Geisdorfer. "Women Writers into the Mainstream: Contemporary Latin American Narrative". *Philosophy and Literature in Latin America*. Eds. Jorge J.E. Gracia and Mireya Camurati. New York: State University of New York, 1989. An overview of women in contemporary Latin American letters.
*Golden, Tim. "Guatemalan Indian Wins the Nobel Peace Prize": *New York Times* (17 October 1992):p.A1,A5.
*Golden, Tim. "Guatemalan to Fight On With Nobel as Trumpet": *New York Times* (19 October 1992):p.A5.
*Gossen, Gary H. "Rigoberta Menchu and Her Epic Narrative". *Latin American Perspectives*, Vol. 26, No. 6, If Truth Be Told: A Forum on David Stoll's "Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans" (Nov., 1999), pp.&nbsp;64–69.
*Gray Díaz, Nancy. "Indian Women Writers of Spanish America". *Spanish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book*. Ed. Diane E. Marting. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988
*Millay, Amy Nauss. *Voices from the Fuente Viva: The Effect of Orality in Twentieth-Century Spanish American Narrative*. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2005.
*Logan, Kathleen. "Personal Testimony: Latin American Women Telling Their Lives". *Latin American Research Review* 32.1 (1997): 199–211. Review Essay.
*Nelan, Bruce W. "Striking Against Racism". *Time* 140:61 (26 October 1992): p.&nbsp;61.
*Stanford, Victoria. "Between Rigoberta Menchu and La Violencia: Deconstructing David Stoll's History of Guatemala" *Latin American Perspectives* 26.6, If Truth Be Told: A Forum on David Stoll's "Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans" (Nov., 1999), pp.&nbsp;38–46.
*---. "From I, Rigoberta to the Commissioning of Truth Maya Women and the Reshaping of Guatemalan History". *Cultural Critique* 47 (2001) 16–53.
*Sommer, Doris. "Rigoberta's Secrets" Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 18, No. 3, *Voices of the Voiceless in Testimonial Literature*, Part I. (Summer, 1991), pp.&nbsp;32–50.
*Stoll, David "Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans" (Westview Press, 1999)
*---. "Slaps and Embraces: A Rhetoric of Particularism". *The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader*. Ed. Iliana Rodríguez. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
*Ward, Thomas. *La resistencia cultural: la nación en el ensayo de las Américas*. Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2004: 285–302.
*Wise, R. Todd. "Native American Testimonio: The Shared Vision of Black Elk and Rigoberta Menchú". In *Christianity and Literature,* Volume 45, Issue No.1 (Autumn 1995).
*Zimmerman, Marc. "Rigoberta Menchú After the Nobel: From Militant Narrative to Postmodern Politics". *The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader*. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

## Pautan luar

*Biography at the official Nobel site
*Nobel Peace Prize lecture 
*Salon.com: Rigoberta Menchú meets the press
*"Peace Prize Winner Admits Discrepancies", AP story in *[[New York Times]]*, 12 February 1999 (Subscription only.)
*"Spain may judge Guatemala abuses", BBC News, 5 October 2005
*"Liar, Rigoberta Menchu" by Dinesh D'Souza, Boundless webzine, 1999.
*"Anthropologist Challenges Veracity of Multicultural Icon" – ''The Chronicle of Higher Education''. (Subscription only.)
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*Sound recording of Elizabeth Burgos-Debray interviewing Rigoberta Menchu.
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