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Author:   Cynthia Franklin
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9781531503727

ISBN 10:   1531503721
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   06 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments | ix Introduction: The Human in Crisis | 1 PART I: NARRATIVE HUMANITY 1 Love and Terror: Formulas of Citizenship in Zeitoun and Trouble the Water | 33 2 Criminals and Kinship: Fruitvale Station, Between the World and Me, and Black Selfhood in the Age of BLM | 68 PART II: NARRATED HUMANITY 3 From Movement to Memoir: When They Call You a Terrorist and the Power of Queer Black Kinship | 109 4 “Nursing Visions of the Unimagined”: BDS and Steven Salaita’s World-Making Narratives of Fatherhood, Affiliation, and Freedom | 144 PART III: NARRATED HUMANITY AND GROUNDED NARRATIVE HUMANITY 5 “E Hū ē” (Rising Like a Mighty Wave): Mauna Kea and the Movement beyond the Human | 187 Postscript: Hope, Joy, and “The Struggle for Ea” | 231 Notes | 237 Works Cited | 255 Index | 283

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Original, innovative, and thorough. In Narrating Humanity, Cynthia Franklin creates an important new language, and new critical modality, for speaking about narrative and politics, and the relationship of the self to both.---Bill Mullen, author of James Baldwin: Living in Fire

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Cynthia G. Franklin is Professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i. She coedits the journal Biography and is author of Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today (2009), as well as Writing Women’s Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Multi Genre Anthologies (1994).

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