I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was shot by the Taliban is an eye-opening life narrative of Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani activist who accounts her childhood experiences and subsequent near-death encounter with the Taliban, describing her success later on when her story is heard by the international community. This …
The internment of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia will always leave a dark stain on BC history and one that has left many families of Japanese descent in a wake of intergenerational trauma. Archives have been an integral part of preservation of victim’s stories. During the internment camps, many logistics had to be conducted in …
With the rise of social media, society has changed drastically and individuals are often, and sometimes rather unknowingly putting their lives center stage for the public. Currently, social media is seen as somewhat a “conceptual excess by collapsing boundaries of public and private, real and virtual” (Douglas). The selfie is a relatively contemporary concept and …
In I, Rigoberta Menchu, the testimonio written by an Indigenous Guatemalan survivor of an oppressive military government has stirred a reaction the scholars community as well as given me a stronger insight into narrative writing. The chapters detail of a personal childhood and the traumatic events that plagued the local community at the time (Menchu). Visiting …