Teaching and testimony : Rigoberta Menchú and the North American classroom /

Teaching and testimony : Rigoberta Menchú and the North American classroom /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996.
Description:viii, 391 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Interruptions
Subject:
Menchú, Rigoberta. -- Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia.
Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia (Menchú, Rigoberta)
Education -- Biographical methods.
Quiché Indians -- Study and teaching.
Human rights workers -- Guatemala -- Study and teaching.
Latin America -- Civilization -- Study and teaching.
Multicultural education.
Critical pedagogy.
Civilization -- Study and teaching.
Critical pedagogy.
Education -- Biographical methods.
Multicultural education.
Quiché Indians -- Study and teaching.
Women human rights workers -- Study and teaching.
Guatemala.
Latin America.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2450223
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Other authors / contributors:Webb, Allen, 1957-
Benz, Stephen Connely, 1958-
ISBN:0791430138 (alk. paper)
0791430146 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-380) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Transformative Voices
  • 2. Culture Shock and I, Rigoberta Menchú
  • Controversial Figure
  • 3. From Peasant to National Symbol
  • 4. Why Dinesh D'Souza Has It in for Rigoberta Menchú
  • Teaching The Latin American Context
  • 5. Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú: Autoethnography and the Recoding of Citizenship
  • 6. Creating a Context for Rigoberta Menchú
  • 7. The Testimonial of Rigoberta Menchú in a Native Tradition
  • 8. Official Violence and Folk Violence: Approaching I, Rigoberta Menchú from the Perspectives of Folklife and Peace Studies
  • 9. Literature from the Land Between: A High School Unit on Central American Literature
  • 10. The Testimony of Rigoberta Menchú in the Foreign Language Curriculum
  • Rigoberta Menchú and White, Middle-Class Students
  • 11. Writing Their Way to Compassionate Citizenship: Rigoberta Menchú and Activating High School Learners
  • 12. The Freshman Experience at Willamette University: Teaching and Learning with Rigoberta Menchú
  • 13. Having to Read a Book about Oppression: Encountering Rigoberta Menchú's Testimony in Boulder, Colorado
  • 14. Worlding Students
  • 15. Passion and Politics: Teaching Rigoberta Menchú's Text as a Feminist
  • Rigoberta Menchú and Minority/Nontraditional Students
  • 16. Rigoberta Menchú's Testimony: Empowering ESL Students to Write
  • 17. Testimony in a Adolescent Day Treatment Center: Rigoberta Menchú and At-Risk Youth
  • Testimonial Constructions
  • 18. Testimonial Dictionary to the Reading of Me llamo rigoberta Menchú y asi me nacio la conciencia: In Search of Our Voice
  • 19. Rigoberta's Earrings: The Limits of Teaching Testimonio
  • 20. Not Just Plain English: Teaching Critical Reading with I, Rigoberta Menchú
  • 21. "This is My Testimony": Rigoberta Menchú in a Class on Oral History
  • Comparative Strategies
  • 22. Rigoberta Menchú's Testimony as Required First-Year Reading
  • 23. A Window of Opportunity: An Ethics of Reading Third World Autobiography
  • 24. Supplementing the Standard Curriculum: Twain's Connecticut Yankee and Menchú's Indian Woman of Guatemala
  • Reflective Teaching
  • 25. Bridging the Gap: Modes of Testimony and Teaching Central American Politics
  • 26. Rigoberta Menchú and Latin American Cultural History: A Professor's Journal
  • 27. Training Teachers with Rigoberta Menchú: A Computer Conference
  • 28. Rigoberta Menchú's Secret: Culture and Education
  • Appendix 1. Teaching Materials for I, Rigoberta Menchú
  • Appendix 2. Film/Video Resources
  • Appendix 3. Guatemalan Resources/Activism
  • Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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