Introduction: Life Writing, Human Rights, and Young Women

García, Ana Belén Martínez; Belén, Ana

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“…Using repetition as a rhetorical device since Aristotle has been a distinctly successful mechanism for orators and public speakers to persuade citizens, politicians trying to win voters over included. Multimodal repetition across media and platforms, moreover, in the “digital society” (Lindgren, 2017 ) in which we are currently living, affords the promotion of awareness and engagement (Martínez García, 2020b , 2020c ). In the case of COVID-19, however, the excessive repetition of terms that carry negative connotations such as “war,” “fight,” “battle,” or even “crisis” does not lead to increased public engagement.…”

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“…In the book, New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights , Ana Belén Martínez García ( 2020b ) looks at contemporary cases of women activists seeking to bring to light abuse they have witnessed and/or endured to call for an end to injustice, usually starting as something personal and local, but soon becoming global phenomena.…”

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Memories of War and the COVID-19 Crisis in Spain

García

2020

Hu Arenas

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Spaniards born in a democracy have no recollection of living through war and what it entails. We can only access those memories via mediation, by listening to our relatives who were there, whose stories we become witnesses to, and which ultimately become our own collective witnessing. The remembrance of the Spanish Civil War passed on to us in this manner is a contested legacy, a complex combination of affects and mediated memories, coming from offline—as in conversations with our elders—and online—such as archival footage—resources. Experiencing war firsthand left indelible marks in our forebearers’ minds. Now the elderly must face this violent “war” and “postwar” rhetoric with the potential retraumatization it may cause. Not capable to understand why media and government officials alike call for heroes to resist and fight the crisis, a discourse heavily imbued with emotions and battlefront references does little to assuage citizens’ fears. Perpetual news reels on the number of dead per day worsen the psychological strain of a person in lockdown, akin to that of prison inmates, more so if that person endured an actual war and its aftermath. What might be done to lessen such harmful impacts? How can we change the narrative and make it more humane?

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Section: From a Narrative Of “Crisis” To One Of “War”mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%