Meg Jensen is the director of the Centre for Life
Narratives at Kingston University, UK, and the author of The Open
Book: Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern
Writers.
Margaretta Jolly is the director of the Centre for
Life History and Life Writing Research at the University of Sussex,
UK. She is the author of In Love and Struggle: Letters in
Contemporary Feminism, winner of the Feminist and Women’s Studies
Association UK Book Prize.
"Of use and appeal to a broad range of readers wherever they might
be situated: the prison, the field, the court, the stage or
gallery, or even the classroom. No other volume does this kind of
work."--Laura Lyons, University of Hawaii
"This volume aims to correct cultural, scholarly, and pedagogical
tendencies to see human rights from a legalistic perspective by
drawing attention to the deeply important, but also contradictory
and complex, role that life narrative plays in the practical
realization of human rights."--James Dawes, author of Evil Men
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