Contents -- Foreword: Life Stories in a Human Rights Context - Mary Robinson -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Life/Rights Narrative in Action - Margaretta Jolly -- Part One. Testimony -- I-Witness - Annette Kobak -- Beyond Narrative: The Shape of Traumatic Testimony - Molly Andrews -- The Golden Cage: The Story of an Activist - Emin Milli -- The Price of Words - Nazeeha Saeed -- Out of the Inner Wilderness: Torture and Healing - Hector Aristizabal and Diane Lefer -- Part Two. Recognition -- Recognition - Eva Hoffman -- Protection - Gillian Whitlock -- The Justice of Listening: Japanese Leprosy Segregation - Michio Miyasaka -- Reimagining the Criminal, Reconfiguring Justice - Finola Farrant -- Part Three. Representation -- "I Hear the Approaching Thunder": The Lyric Voice and Human Rights - Patricia Hampl -- The Fictional Is Political: Forms of Appeal in Autobiographical Fiction and Poetry - Meg Jensen -- Enter the King: Martin Luther King Jr., "Human Rights Heroism," and Contemporary American Drama- Brian Phillips -- Témoignage and Responsibility in Photo/Graphic Narratives of Médecins Sans Frontières - Alexandra Schultheis Moore -- Representing Human Rights Violations in Multimedia Contexts- Katrina M. Powell -- Part Four. Justice -- Sugar Daddies or Agents for Change? Community Arts Workers and Justice for Girls "Who Just Want to Go to School" - Julia Watson -- E-witnessing in the Digital Age - Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith -- "Facebook Is Like a Religion Around Here": Voices from the "Arab Spring" and the Policy-Making Community - Brian Brivati -- The Importance of Taking and Bearing Witness: Reflections on Twenty Years as a Human Rights Lawyer - mark Muller -- Part Five. Learning -- Using Life Narrative to Explore Human Rights Themes in the Classroom - Brian Brivati, Meg Jensen, Margaretta Jolly, and Alexandra Schultheis Moore.

Contributors -- Index.