Introduction: Life Writing, Human Rights, and Young Women

  1. Martínez García, Ana Belén
Libro:
New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights

Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN: 9783030464196,  9783030464202

Año de publicación: 2020

Páginas: 1-18

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46420-2_1 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

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.

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