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100			_aSchaffer, Kay.
245		0	_aHuman Rights and Narrated Lives _b: The Ethics of Recognition _c/ Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aLondon _b: Palgrave Macmillan _c, 2004.
300			_axii, 288 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aHuman 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			_aAutobiography.
650			_aHuman rights.
650			_aLife writing.
650			_aNarration (Rhetoric).
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