{"product_id":"narrating-humanity-life-writing-and-movement-politics-from-palestine-to-mauna-kea-paperback","title":"Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCynthia Franklin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNarrating Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 humanity\" propagate the status quo, Franklin argues, those of \"narrated humanity\" and \"grounded narrative humanity\" are ones that articulate ways of being human necessary for not only surviving but also thriving during a time of accelerating crises brought on by the intersecting effects of racial capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and climate change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough chapters focused on Hurricane Katrina; Black Lives Matter; the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement; and the Native Hawaiian movement to protect Mauna a Wākea, Franklin reveals how life writing can be mobilized to do more than perpetuate dominant forms of dehumanization that underwrite violence. She contends that life narratives can help materialize ways of being human inspired by these contemporary political movements that are based on queer kinship, inter\/national solidarity, abolitionist care, and decolonial connectivity among humans, more-than-humans, land, and waters. Engaging writers, artists, and activists who inspire radical forms of relationality, she comes to write side-by-side with them in her own acts of narrated humanity by refusing the boundaries between autobiography, community-based activism, and literary and cultural criticism.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCynthia G. Franklin \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i. She coedits the journal \u003ci\u003eBiography \u003c\/i\u003eand is author of\u003ci\u003e Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), as well as \u003ci\u003eWriting Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Multi Genre Anthologies\u003c\/i\u003e (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779372417312,"sku":"9781531503734","price":56.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4a7b164f6b83a6a650dd302151ceef7f.webp?v=1780516062","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/narrating-humanity-life-writing-and-movement-politics-from-palestine-to-mauna-kea-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}