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Beyond Crisis and Trauma: Storytelling in the Age of Human Rights
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Beyond Crisis and Trauma: Storytelling in the Age of Human Rights
Yazar:
Adams, Kelly A., author.
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9780438179868
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1 electronic resource (310 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Leslie Bow Committee members: Russ Castronovo; Rob Nixon; Ellen Samuels; Hemant Shah.
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"Beyond Crisis and Trauma" explores how storytelling has become a transformative tool for advocacy that addresses the contradictory realization of human rights in the late 20th and early 21 st centuries. The recognition of rights at a global level has not, as many scholars argue, led to the decrease in atrocities that it was intended to engender. While the language of rights may have triumphed at a rhetorical level, the global embrace of this rhetoric in the face of worsening violence underscores its paradoxical inefficacy in creating substantive change. "Beyond Crisis and Trauma," however, revises this narrative of discursive failure to argue for the importance of human rights storytelling in a global context. In particular, this study conceptualizes the act of storytelling as engendering forms of what I call "literary micro-justice," which is the attritional manifestation of justice that emerges in the telling and retelling of a story.
This dissertation posits storytelling as a way to reimagine the inert discourse of human rights as a dynamic force that exceeds efforts to appropriate or control it. Storytelling is a collaborative process of empowerment in which opportunities for justice are created in the dialectic between storyteller and audience. In emphasizing storytelling as a process, this study subverts assumptions about the ease with which human rights language becomes co-opted and, in turn, complicates the increasingly pessimistic trajectory of rights discourse. In contrast to human rights scholarship that has problematized language as an object vulnerable to appropriation by neoliberal institutions, "Beyond Crisis and Trauma" contends that stories are not simply self-contained units that exist at the moment of telling, but rather are creative agents that live beyond the moment to inform and disrupt our awareness and perception of the world. Through a discussion of works by Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Dave Eggers, and Arundhati Roy, this dissertation illustrates how literary micro-justice presents a way to conceptualize the effects of storytelling and the generative ways in which stories work to bring change to the "small places" where human rights begin.
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School code: 0262
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