Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea Franklin Cynthia
Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea Franklin Cynthia Hegemonic narratives about who and what counts as human determine who lives and dies--who has the…
Specifikacia Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea Franklin Cynthia
Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea Franklin Cynthia
Hegemonic narratives about who and what counts as human determine who lives and dies--who has the right to breathe freely and fully. Franklin makes a critical intervention into practices of life writing and contemporary crises in the U.S. At the same time, in the face of crushing state violence, humans rise, and breathe life into new and resurgent stories of human being, becoming, and belonging.In Narrating Humanity, Cynthia G.
To enable this intervention, she proposes a powerful new analytical language centered on "narrative humanity," "narrated humanity," and "grounded narrative humanity," and foregrounds concepts of the human that emerge from movement politics. about who counts as human. While stories of "narrative humanity" propagate the status quo, Franklin argues, those of "narrated humanity" and "grounded narrative humanity" are ones that articulate ways of being