In Maggie de Vries’ narrative Missing Sarah, de Vries creates a space for her murdered sister Sarah, a sex worker on the Downtown Eastside, to share her experiences by including excerpts of Sarah’s journal in the narrative. In an excerpt on page 180 of Missing Sarah, de Vries includes an entry which describes the slow […]
I think it is safe to assume that whenever one does anything in their everyday, others’ opinions of them greatly influence their actions. Is this influence also a factor for an author of a life narrative, but on a wider scale? And, if it is, what does this experience suggest about the legitimacy of any […]
Reading through various disability narratives, I am struck by a humbling realization: this is the first time in my life that I have ever been made aware of the disabled person’s perspective. Judging by the rhetoric of emancipation employed by the writers, I think it is also safe to assume that my situation is not […]
As one explores the peritext of Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala, the author’s ability to communicate powerfully – even without words – is striking. By means of her cover photos, she purposefully employs visual symbolism to underscore her power as a spokesperson for women’s rights. When one examines the cover of Malala’s autobiography, one is […]
Beginning in 1960, one of the world’s most brutal civil conflicts arose in Guatemala between the militant government and the peasant population (Nobel Womens Initiative). In her autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, the author describes her experience of this war as she traveled through her country to unify the Maya and […]