Nadia Murad: Yazidi Survivor’s Written vs Audiovisual Testimony

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

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN: 9783030464196,  9783030464202

Year of publication: 2020

Pages: 111-131

Type: Book chapter

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46420-2_7 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

Sustainable development goals

Abstract

The final chapter closes as a coda to the first chapter in the book. If Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, four years later, in 2018, it was Nadia Murad's turn. This chapter offers a similar approach to the one taken in the first chapter and elsewhere, which is to read the activist¿s texts side by side, and assess the narrative self-representation and self-construction processes in both written and audiovisual media, in traditional and innovative forms. Though there were prior memoirs by women who escaped ISIS recounting the horror of victimization and sexual exploitation, Murad's gained worldwide recognition faster perhaps aided by a multiplicity of other factors, namely the ubiquitous deployment of her life-writing texts -including a recent documentary- on and offline.

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