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New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing) by Ana Belén Martínez García is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing) about?

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 and the audiovisual material, online and offline, and taking all texts as belonging to a unique, single, though multifaceted, project.

Who reads New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Ana Belén Martínez García
Publisher
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9783030464196
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Law, Literary Criticism, Political Science

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