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New Forms of Self-Narration - Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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New Forms of Self-Narration - Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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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 and the audiovisual material, online and offline, and
taking all texts as belonging to a unique, single, though
multifaceted, project.
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