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We Shall Bear Witness - Life Narratives and Human Rights (Paperback)
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We Shall Bear Witness - Life Narratives and Human Rights (Paperback)
Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
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Personal testimonies are the life force of human rights work, and
rights claims have brought profound power to the practice of life
writing. This volume explores the connections and conversations
between human rights and life writing through a dazzling,
international collection of essays by survivor-writers, scholars,
and human rights advocates. In We Shall Bear Witness, editors Meg
Jensen and Margaretta Jolly assemble moving personal accounts from
those who have endured persecution, imprisonment, and torture;
meditations on experiences of injustice and protest by creative
writers and filmmakers; and innovative research on ways that
digital media, commodification, and geopolitics are shaping what is
possible to hear and say. The book's primary sections-testimony,
recognition, representation, and justice-evoke the key stages in
turning experience into a human rights life story and attend to
such diverse and varied arts as autobiography, documentary film,
report, oral history, blog, and verbatim theater. The result is a
groundbreaking book that sensitively examines how life and rights
narratives have become so powerfully entwined. Also included is an
innovative guide to teaching human rights and life narrative in the
classroom.
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