Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea

by Cynthia Franklin

Book Overview

In Narrating Humanity, Cynthia G. Franklin makes a critical intervention into practices of life writing and contemporary crises in the United States about who counts as human. To enable this intervention, she proposes a powerful new analytical language centered on "narrative humanity," "narrated humanity," and "grounded narrative humanity" and foregrounds concepts of the human that emerge from movement politics. While stories of "narrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 153150373X
• ISBN13: 9781531503734
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"