Malala yousafzai biography ppt

Beyond Critique: Global Activism and the Case of Malala Yousafzai

Phyllis M Ryder

Literacy in Composition Studies, 2015

Beyond critique: Global activism and the case of malala yousafzai phyllis mentzell ryder-George Washington university keyWords Malala Yousafzai, neoimperialism, subaltern studies, global activism, media critique o n October 9, 2012, a Talib boy stopped a small school bus in the Swat Valley of Pakistan and asked, "Who is Malala?" Though no one spoke, he identified Malala when the girls nervously glanced at her.

Then he shot her in the head. She survived, miraculously, after an ordeal that included Pakistani national helicopters; a Saudi Arabian jet; a hospital in Birmingham, England; and multiple surgeries. A year later, she published her memoir I am Malala and toured the world.

When Malala spoke to the United Nations on her sixteenth birthday, she conveyed the same message that had garnered the attention of the Tal