Overview
- Develops the idea of life writing as a form of self-construction, whereby victims may reframe their story as that of an empowered survivor
- Examines strategic narrative devices typical of testimonial accounts both online and offline
- Unpacks the global phenomenon of young women’s testimonial projects
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (PSLW)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 andthe audiovisual material, online and offline, and taking all texts as belonging to a unique, single, though multifaceted, project.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ana Belén Martínez García researches human rights life writing by young women activists at the University of Navarra, Spain. She is a member of the International Auto/Biography Association, the IABA-SNS (Students and New Scholars) Network, AEDEAN (Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies), and ISSN (International Society for the Study of Narrative).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Forms of Self-Narration
Book Subtitle: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights
Authors: Ana Belén Martínez García
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46420-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46419-6Published: 22 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46422-6Published: 22 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46420-2Published: 21 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-9185
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 151
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Literature and Technology/Media, Politics and Gender