Theoretical perspectives on human rights and literature / edited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; foreword by Joseph R. Slaughter.

Other author Goldberg, Elizabeth Swanson, 1966-
Other author Moore, Alexandra Schultheis.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge,
Descriptionxvi, 302 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Human rights in literature.
Atrocities in literature.
Violence in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Law and literature.
Literature and society.
Literature, Modern--20th century. --History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--21st century. --History and criticism.

SeriesRoutledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 2
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature 2. ^A1063856
Contents Foreword: Rights on paper / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Introduction: Human rights and literature: the development of an interdiscipline / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore -- "Literature," the "rights of man," and narratives of atrocity: historical backgrounds to the culture of testimony / Julie Stone Peters -- Enabling fictions and novel subjects: the bildungsroman and international human rights law / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Top down, bottom up, horizontally: resignifying the universal in human rights discourse / Domna C. Stanton -- The social imaginary as a problematic for human rights / Meili Steele -- Intimations of what was to come: Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones and the indivisibility of human rights / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg -- Paradoxes of neoliberalism and human rights / Greg Mullins -- Reading the living archives: the witness of literary art / Carolyn Forché -- Narrating human rights and the limits of magic realism in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the clown / Elizabeth S. Anker -- Complicities of witnessing in Joe Sacco's Palestine / Wendy Kozol -- Dark chamber, colonial scene: post-9/11 torture and representation / Stephanie Athey -- Human rights as violence and enigma: can literature really be of any help with the politics of human rights? / Nick Mansfield -- Imagining women as human / Hephzibah Roskelly -- "Disaster capitalism" and human rights: embodiment and subalternity in Indra Sinha's Animal's people / Alexandra Schultheis Moore -- Do human rights need a self? Buddhist literature and the samsaric subject / Gregory Price Grieve -- Epilogue / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-291) and index.
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ISBN9780415890977
ISBN0415890977