What is it about?
This is a chapter within my first research monograph, entitled New Forms of Self-Narration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). In this chapter I approach Nadia Murad's testimonial self-narration. I read Murad's activist life-writing texts side by side as part of larger life-writing testimonial project meant to gain rights for the Yazidi, victims of ISIS genocide and sexual violence.
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Why is it important?
Other authors had approached this activist and her texts. However, none of them had paid attention to the imbrication of the discourse deployed as testimony, in and outside the court, in traditional as well as new media, taking all the texts as part of a whole. The greatest strength of this research is its novelty in analyzing all these life-writing texts as potentially moving others to action. Also, I explain some of the reasons behind the apparent success story some critics complain about when comparing Murad to other Yazidi survivors.
Perspectives
This is an original research chapter that serves a final coda to the volume New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights. Part of the Palgrave Studies in Life Writing book series (PSLW). This chapter builds on the theory of narrating the self as potential for mobilization, showcasing how giving testimony about one's suffering may lead to denouncing larger injustices and human rights transgressions committed against collectives. Behind each activist's life-writing project lies the will to mobilize constituencies, change people's minds, and effect social change.
Dr Ana Belén Martínez García
Universidad de Navarra
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This page is a summary of: Nadia Murad: Yazidi Survivor’s Written vs Audiovisual Testimony, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46420-2_7.
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