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...book, Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans, Stoll questions Menchu's account of her education and the deaths of her family...
...York Times article on Stoll's assertions reported that one brother who dies of starvation in I, Rigoberta Menchu never existed. The article says that Menchu, who claimed to have been uneducated, actually studied for several years in a Catholic school...
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...