New Forms of Self-Narration : Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights Hardback
by Ana Belen Martinez Garcia
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Life Writing series
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This book is a timely study of young women’s life writing as a form of human rights activism.
It focuses on six young women who suffered human rights violations when they were girls and have gone on to become activists through life writing: Malala Yousafzai, Hyeonseo Lee, Yeonmi Park, Bana Alabed, Nujeen Mustafa, and Nadia Murad.
Their ongoing life-writing projects diverge to some extent, but all share several notable features: they claim a testimonial collective voice, they deploy rights discourse, they excite humanitarian emotions, they link up their context-bound plight with bigger social justice causes, and they use English as their vehicle of self-expression and self-construction.
This strategic use of English is of vital importance, as it has brought them together as icons in the public sphere within the last six years.
New Forms of Self-Narration is the first ever attempt to explore all these activists’ life-writing texts side by side, encompassing both the written andthe audiovisual material, online and offline, and taking all texts as belonging to a unique, single, though multifaceted, project.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:151 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; X, 151 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:22/08/2020
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- ISBN:9783030464196
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:151 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; X, 151 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:22/08/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030464196
