We shall bear witness : life narratives and human rights /

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"Personal testimonies are the life force of human rights work, and rights clams 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 sur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jensen, Meg (Editor ), Jolly, Margaretta (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]
Colección:Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
Temas:
Human rights.
Essays.
Human rights in literature.
Human rights in art.
Human rights > Study and teaching.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Essais (Genre littéraire)
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans la littérature.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans l'art.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Étude et enseignement.
essays.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Essays
Human rights
Human rights in art
Human rights in literature
Human rights > Study and teaching
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword : Life stories in a human rights context / Mary Robinson
  • Introduction : Life/rights narrative in action / Margaretta Jolly
  • Testimony. I-witness / Annette Kobak ; Beyond narrative : the shape of traumatic testimony / Molly Andrews ; The golden cage : the story of an activist / Emin Milli ; The price of words / Nazeeha Saeed ; Out of the inner wilderness : torture and healing / Hector Aristizábal and Diane Lefer
  • Recognition. Eva Hoffman ; Protection / Gillian Whitlock ; The justice of listening : Japanese leprosy segregation / Michio Miyasaka ; Reimagining the criminal, reconfiguring justice / Finola Farrant
  • Representation. "I hear the approaching thunder" : the lyric voice and human rights / Patricia Hampl ; The fictional is political : forms of appeal in autobiographical fiction and poetry / Meg Jensen ; Enter the king : Martin Luther King Jr., "human rights heroism," and contemporary American drama / Brian Phillips ; Témoignage and responsibility in photo/graphic narratives of Médecins sans frontières / Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; Representing human rights violations in multimedia contexts / Katrina M. Powell
  • Justice. Sugar daddies or agents for change? Community arts workers and justice for girls "who just want to go to school" / Julia Watson ; E-witnessing in the digital age / Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith ; "Facebook is like a religion around here" : voices from the "Arab spring" and the policy-making community / Brian Brivati ; The importance of taking and bearing witness : reflections on twenty years as a human rights lawyer / Mark Muller
  • Learning. Using life narrative to explore human rights themes in the classroom / Brian Brivati [and others].

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