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Human rights and narrated lives : the ethics of recognition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schaffer, Kay, 1945-
Other Authors: Smith, Sidonie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Subjects:
Human rights.
Mensenrechten.
Verhalen.
Levenservaring.
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Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Conjunctions : life narratives in the field of human rights
  • The venues of storytelling
  • Truth, reconciliation, and the traumatic past of South Africa
  • Indigenous human rights in Australia : who speaks for the stolen generations?
  • Belated narrating : "grandmothers" telling stories of forced sexual slavery during World War II
  • Life sentences : narrated lives and prisoner rights in the United States
  • Post-Tiananmen narratives and the new China
  • Conclusion.