Sidonie smith poetics womens autobiography

          A poetics of women's autobiography: marginality and the fictions of self-representation.

        1. A poetics of women's autobiography: marginality and the fictions of self-representation.
        2. By Sidonie Smith.
        3. A Poetics of Women's Autobiography sees the woman who writes autobiographies as a persistent and resilient interrogator of the prevailing ideology of gender.
        4. A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-representation.
        5. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings book has soft covers.
        6. A Poetics of Women's Autobiography sees the woman who writes autobiographies as a persistent and resilient interrogator of the prevailing ideology of gender.!

          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