What is it about?
The format of a TED talk serves activists tell their stories and reach wider audiences while making a bigger and faster impact. Produced offline and posted online, TED talks exemplify how multimodal approaches to human rights life writing are becoming more and more common nowadays.
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Why is it important?
Exploring narratives from North Korean activists is timely and necessary. As first-person accounts of victimization, human rights narratives have been thoorughly studied. However, the multiple autobiographical records by North Korean young girls have not received enough attention so far. Their voices deserve to be heard, much as legal, historical and media scholarship must also be considered.
Perspectives
This article should be of interest for those in the field of life writing, human rights, and online as well as offline activism. It addresses new forms of narrating the self that point towards present and future approaches. It sheds light on the situation endured by young girls and women in North Korea as told in the first person. It may also interest scholars in the field of gender and media studies.
Dr Ana Belén Martínez García
Universidad de Navarra
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This page is a summary of: TED Talks as Life Writing: Online and Offline Activism, Life Writing, November 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1405317.
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