We Shall Bear Witness: Life Narratives and Human Rights ed. by Meg Jensen, Margaretta Jolly

Biography ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-710
Author(s):  
Bethany Ober Mannon
Biography ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Schaffer ◽  
Sidonie Smith
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2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Belén Martínez García

This essay demonstrates the effectiveness of human rights life narratives in garnering global support through their appeal to empathy. I focus on Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s autobiographical texts and their impact on lives outside the written pages, which is first and foremost of an empathic nature. The essay pays special attention to her childhood blog and her teenage autobiography, looking at the narrative strategies employed in both. Autobiographical texts are never neutral, enabling people to see themselves under a new light, spurring them to act. The delicate balance between witnessing and involvement hangs on the creation of an emotional bond.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Bhawana Pokharel

Home and human rights appear as interwined categories in narratives related to migration. However, these two categories have not been amply explored as proximate matters in any migration related texts such as Registän Diary. Home is not only a place for dwelling with varying frameworks but also many other things like a space, a feeling and a will to belong. Having a home, a place to dwell and belong, is one of the basic rights of human, specifically in line with the view that human rights are rights held by individuals simply because they are part of the human species regardless of their sex, race, nationality, and economic background. In this paper, the researcher, remaining within the paradigm of qualitative research, draws ideas from the scholars alike Pico Iyer, Salman Rushdie, Shalley Mallet, Lynn Hunt, Joseph R. Slaughter, examines the life narratives of the labour migrants to the Gulf from Nepal, argues and concludes that be it through the multifaceted depiction of home or cases of human rights abuse, Registän Diary negotiates a free belonging for all the citizens in a secure world.


Author(s):  
María Luisa Ortiz ◽  
Oriana Bernasconi ◽  
Tamara Lagos

Objective: To identify, describe and analyse the narratives present in the documents donated by women to Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMDH). Methodology: A mixed-method exploratory study which presents a descriptive statistical analysis of the collection of documents donated to the MMDH, according to the person making the donation and the genre; an analysis of the profile, rationale, origin and type of experience described in order to propose a classification; and the analysis of 37 documents selected in order to illustrate this classification. Results: Despite the severe restrictions imposed on political activity, association, and public discourse, and the profound damage that state terrorism inflicted on the social fabric, the personal documents of women bear witness to their fundamental role in the defence and promotion of human rights, as well as in the political, social and cultural mobilization against the dictatorship of Chile.


1970 ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Abdelkader Chered

“Salima Ghezali is a subversive woman”. This is how the Algerian regime considers this teacher-turned-journalist, women’s rights activist and novelist, and a winner of a string of human rights awards. In her works of fiction and non-fiction as well as her radio shows, this Francophone writer has questioned the legitimacy of the Algerian postcolonial state and has reacted to the current state of political violence by taking up the pen in order to bear witness to the affliction of the Algerian people. Her ultimate intention is to depict the Algerian civil crisis (1992-1999) to a French-language reading public both at home and abroad, as well as to document, for future generations, the impact of this civil war on women in post-independence Algeria.


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Kumar Tiwari
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