Kashmiri Life Narratives: Human Rights, Pleasure and the Local Cosmopolitan

ISBN-13: 9780367428006 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 254 str.

Rakhshan Rizwan

Opis

Scholarly theorizations of storytelling forms within human rights texts such as novels, human rights reports, testimonies or life narratives, typically focus on representations of physical pain. In contrast, this book shows how Kashmiri life narratives perform human rights advocacy through representations of pleasure and happiness.

O autorze

Rakhshan Rizwan is a writer and scholar working at the intersection of creative and scholarly practice. She is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has a PhD in Comparative Literature. She has been a guest researcher at the Tilburg Law School. Her research interests include human rights and literature, postcolonial novels, decolonial legal fictions and minority rights and representation. She is author of "Local Flows: The Pleasurecentric Turn in Human Rights Advocacy in South Asia" (Tilburg Law Review, 2017) and "Repudiating the fathers: Resistance and Writing Back in Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator" (Kashmir Lit, 2013). Her poetry pamphlet, Paisley (2017) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Prize.