Malala Yousafzai, Life Narrative and the Collaborative Archive

This article looks at the numerous life narrative texts authored by and written about the Pakistani youth activist Malala Yousafzai. I consider the ways in which Malala’s archive of collaborative life narrative texts, which represent a progressive narrative that explicitly addresses critiques made about Malala as it proceeds, makes visible moments of resistance. Malala has crafted a speaking position that utilises the ideologies and cultural constructions of childhood and youth–particularly as citizens and representatives of a nation’s future–to become a voice of educational reform.