Hegemonic narratives about who and what counts as human determine
who lives and dies-who has the right to breathe freely and fully.
At the same time, in the face of crushing state violence, humans
rise, and breathe life into new and resurgent stories of human
being, becoming, and belonging. In Narrating Humanity, Cynthia G.
Franklin makes a critical intervention into practices of life
writing and contemporary crises in the U.S. about who counts as
human. To enable this intervention, she proposes a powerful new
analytical language centered on "narrative humanity," "narrated
humanity," and "grounded narrative humanity," and foregrounds
concepts of the human that emerge from movement politics. While
stories of "narrative humanity" propagate the status quo, Franklin
argues, those of "narrated humanity" and "grounded narrative
humanity" are ones that articulate ways of being human necessary
for not only surviving, but thriving during a time of accelerating
crises brought on by the intersecting effects of racial capitalism,
imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and climate change. Through chapters
focused on Hurricane Katrina, Black Lives Matter, the
Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and the
Native Hawaiian movement to protect Mauna a Wakea, Franklin reveals
how life writing can be mobilized to do more than perpetuate
dominant forms of dehumanization that underwrite violence. She
contends that life narratives can help materialize ways of being
human inspired by these contemporary political movements that are
based on queer kinship, inter/national solidarity, abolitionist
care, and decolonial connectivity among humans, more-than-humans,
land, and waters. Engaging writers, artists and activists who
inspire radical forms of relationality, she comes to write
side-by-side with them in her own acts of narrated humanity by
refusing the boundaries between autobiography, community-based
activism, and literary and cultural criticism.
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