Modes of human rights literature : towards a culture without borders / Michael Galchinsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galchinsky, Michael.

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights in literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 132 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility -- a culture without borders. Michael Galchinsky maintains that, no matter how many treaties there are, a rights-respecting world will not truly exist until people everywhere can imagine it. The Modes of Human Rights Literature describes four major forms of human rights literature: protest, testimony, lament, and laughter to reveal how such works give common symbolic forms to widely held sociopolitical emotions. -- back cover.

Contents:

The dream of a culture without borders

Lament as transitional justice

Laughter and the subjected subject

Towards a global civil culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

3319318500

9783319318509

OCLC:

942381170