Human Rights, Inc. : the world novel, narrative form, and international law / Joseph R. Slaughter.

Author/creator Slaughter, Joseph R.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2007.
Descriptionix, 435 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Partial contents Novel subjects and enabling fictions: the formal articulation of international human rights law -- Becoming plots: human rights, the bildungsroman, and the novelization of citizenship -- Normalizing narrative forms of human rights: the (dys)function of the public sphere -- Compulsory development: narrative self-sponsorship and the right to self-determination -- Clefs à roman: reading, writing, and international humanitarianism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 389-417) and index.
LCCN 2007039795
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