Human Rights and Narrated Lives : (Record no. 70133)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781137582461
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 327.73 SCH
Edition number 23
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Schaffer, Kay.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Human Rights and Narrated Lives :
Remainder of title The Ethics of Recognition /
Statement of responsibility, etc Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Palgrave Macmillan ,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2004.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 288 p. :
Dimensions 22 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith explores the crucial role that personal narratives play in contemporary human rights movements. The authors argue that autobiographies, memoirs, testimonies, and other life stories have become powerful means of making human rights violations visible and fostering public recognition of marginalized individuals and communities. Rather than viewing human rights solely through legal or political frameworks, the book examines how storytelling shapes public understanding, empathy, and ethical responsibility. The book investigates how individual life narratives are produced, translated, circulated, and interpreted across different cultural and political settings. It considers the ethical questions involved in representing trauma, suffering, displacement, and violence, asking who has the authority to tell these stories, how audiences respond to them, and how international human rights discourse both enables and constrains personal expression. Drawing on examples from postcolonial societies, indigenous communities, refugee experiences, and women's rights movements, the authors demonstrate the complex relationship between narration, identity, memory, and recognition.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Autobiography.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human rights.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life writing.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Narration (Rhetoric).
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Koha item type VC Office Books
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 30/06/2026   327.73 SCH VC137 30/06/2026 30/06/2026 VC Office Books Books Received from VC office
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