@article{1476945,
      recid = {1476945},
      author = {Franklin, Cynthia, },
      title = {Narrating Humanity : Life Writing and Movement Politics  from Palestine to Mauna Kea /},
      pages = {1 online resource (304 p.) :},
      abstract = {Hegemonic narratives about who and what counts as human  determine who lives and dies-who has the right to breathe  freely and fully. At the same time, in the face of crushing  state violence, humans rise, and breathe life into new and  resurgent stories of human being, becoming, and  belonging.In Narrating Humanity, Cynthia G. Franklin makes  a critical intervention into practices of life writing and  contemporary crises in the U.S. 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 thriving during a time of accelerating  crises brought on by the intersecting effects of racial  capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and climate  change. Through 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476945},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531503758},
}