Bibliograph

Hear my testimony, María Teresa Tula, human rights activist of El Salvador, translated and edited by Lynn Stephen

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Hear my testimony, María Teresa Tula, human rights activist of El Salvador, translated and edited by Lynn Stephen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hear my testimony

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

translated and edited by Lynn Stephen

Sub title

María Teresa Tula, human rights activist of El Salvador

Summary

Following in the footsteps of Rigoberta Menchu, Maria Teresa Tula describes her childhood, marriage, and growing family, as well as her awakening political consciousness, activism, imprisonment, and torture. She gains international recognition as a human rights activist through her work in CO-MADRES, the Committee of Mothers and Relatives of Political Prisoners, Disappeared and Assassinated of El Salvador

Table Of Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. From Childhood to Motherhood -- Ch. 3. Working-Class Housewife -- Ch. 4. First Political Experience -- Ch. 5. CO-MADRES Activist -- Ch. 6. Personal and Political Struggles -- Ch. 7. Increased Repression and the Death of Silvia Olan and Monsenor Romero -- Ch. 8. Birth and Death: Unexpected Pregnancy and the Assassination of Rafael -- Ch. 9. Another Bombing and more Disappearances -- Ch. 10. Living and Working Abroad: Mexico and Europe -- Ch. 11. Torture and Detention -- Ch. 12. The Women's Prison -- Ch. 13. Living in the United States -- Ch. 14. The Peace Accords -- Ch. 15. It's a Hard Life: Women in El Salvador's Economic History -- Ch. 16. Maria's Companeras: Women's Grassroots Organizing in El Salvador, 1970-1991 -- Ch. 17. The Politics and Practice of Testimonial Literature

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