Literature and human rights : the law, the language and the limitations of human rights discourse / edited by Ian Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Ian, 1963- editor.

Series:

Law & literature (De Gruyter) ; Volume 9.

Law & literature ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights in literature.

Law and literature.

Human rights--Language.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Literature and Human Rights are written as a contribution to this vital debate. Each moreover is written in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, reaching across the myriad constitutive disciplines of law, literature and the humanities in order to present an array of alternative perspectives on the nature and meaning of human rights in the modern world. The taking of human rights seriously, it will be suggested, depends just as much on taking seriously the idea of the human as it does the idea of rights.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Literature and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse

Empathy, Literature and Human Rights: The Case of Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper / Porsdam, Helle

Privacy, Blighted Lives, and a Blindspot in British Law / Mullender, Richard

A Squeamishness about Existing: Fernando Pessoa's Quiet Rejection of the Human in The Book of Disquiet / Aristodemou, Maria

I and Another: Rethinking the Subject of Human Rights with Dostoyevsky, Bakhtin and Simondon / Baldissone, Riccardo

Dehumanizing the Enemy: How to Avoid Human Rights / Carpi, Daniela

Am I not a man and a brother? / Bellman, Patrizia Nerozzi

Mental Illness and Human Rights in Patrick McGrath's Asylum / Battisti, Chiara

The Role of Forensics in Human Rights Discourse: Kathy Reichs's Crime Fiction and the Rights of the Dead / Fiorato, Sidia

Rumpole and the Rights of Accused Terrorists / Doerr, Roxanne Barbara

Reality, Theatre and Human Rights / Dente, Carla

The Rights and Wrongs of Marriage: Article 16.2 UDHR and the Case of Edith Dombey / Ward, Ian

Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters and the Cause of Female Literacy in India / Carbone, Paola

The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta, by Montagu Slater: Oral Tradition and Fundamental Rights in the Trial / Lanzoni, Lisa

'n Droë Wit Seisoen in die Stormkaap: André Brink and the Fundamental Rights of the Afrikaners in Apartheid South Africa / Nicolini, Matteo

The Definition of "Linguistic Minority" / Tomaselli, Alessandra / Panzeri, Lino

Rights of Humans/Rights of Nature: The Language of Environmental Rights in UN Documents / Adami, Valentina

On Crimes, Punishments, and Words: Legal and Language Issues in Cesare Beccaria's Works / Logaldo, Mara

Dignity and Disgrace in Law and Literature / Gaakeer, Jeanne

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110368550

3110368552

9783110392630

3110392631

OCLC:

906058496