Word: stoll
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Professor David Stoll tracked down her history and found that parts of her book were simply made up. She was not uneducated. She was sent to boarding school. Her father was indeed engaged in a long struggle to keep from being dispossessed of his land--not by rich ladinos (Guatemalans of European descent), as she claims, but by his in-laws. Nor was her brother Petrocinio burned to death by the government death squads...
Warren framed the conflict between Menchu and Stoll as a conflict between two genres of writing: the testimonial and the expose. She said the Mayan testimonial, testimonio in Spanish, diverges from strict personal narrative...
Waren said Stoll's chosen form of writing--the expose--also shaped his conclusions about Menchu...
Warren predicted that Stoll's book would have a greater impact on the American intellectual debate than on the Guatemalan peace process. "I worried about the book," she said of Stoll's work. "If Stoll somehow discredited testimonio, rural people would not be heard...
According to Warren, a recent nine volume report by a truth commission detailing wartime atrocities overwhelmed Stoll's indictment of the testimonio. The controversy will endure as a legendary debate in anthropology and American electoral politics," Warren said...