February 26, 1999

Rigoberta Menchu Says Autobiography Reflects Collective Memory, Not Just Personal Experience

In the two months since her popular autobiography was labeled a fraud, Rigoberta Menchu has moved closer to acknowledging that at least some of the accusations are true.

She first offered a staunch defense of I, Rigoberta Menchu (Verso, 1983), after a Middlebury College anthropologist charged that the book was filled with lies and half-truths. Ms. Menchu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, and her book is