Sidonie smith autobiography of malcolm
In addition to exploring several slave narratives, Smith reads autobiographical works by Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X..
Malcolm X is known primarily as a black leader who gave passionate and sometimes incendiary speeches about the “so-called Negro” and the “white devil” in.
Sidonie Smith
7. Narratives and Rights Zlata’s Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity
Columbia University Press eBooks, Jan 31, 2012
At this historical moment, the human rights regime is the primary global project for managing inj...
more At this historical moment, the human rights regime is the primary global project for managing injustice and immiseration around the world (Farmer 2003,49), and life stories are at once ground and grist of rights work, rights instrumentalities, and rights politics.
This conjunction of life narration, broadly defined, and contemporary human rights activisms, is indeed, as Kay Schaffer and I argue in Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition, a productive and problematic yoking of the decidedly intimate with the global.' Since the language of human rights is the contemporary lingua franca for addressing the problem of suffering (Ignatieff 2001, 7), the attachment of personal storytelling to the discours
