We shall bear witness
Subtitle: life narratives and human rights
By: edited by Meg Jensen and Margaretta Jolly
Series: Wisconsin studies in autobiography; Wisconsin studies in autobiography
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press; University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Madison, Wisconsin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780299300142; 9780299300135
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Human rights; Essays; Human rights in literature; Human rights in art; Study and teaching
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.