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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldberg, Elizabeth Swanson, 1966-

Moore, Alexandra Schultheis.

Series:

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 2.

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize how both literature and reading literarily can shape understanding of human rights in productive ways. Contributors to Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature provide a shared history of modern literature and rights; theorize how trauma, ethics, subjectivity, and witnessing

Contents:

Cover; Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature; Copyright; Contents; Foreword : Rights on Paper; Acknowledgments; Introduction Human Rights and Literature: The Development of an Interdiscipline; Part I : Histories, Imaginaries, andParadoxes of Literatureand Human Rights; 1. "Literature," the "Rights of Man," and Narratives of Atrocity: Historical Backgrounds to the Culture of Testimony; 2. Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects: The Bildungsroman and International Human Rights Law; 3. Top Down, Bottom Up, Horizontally: Resignifying the Universal in Human Rights Discourse

4. The Social Imaginary as a Problematic for Human Rights5 Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and the Indivisibility of Human Rights; 6. Paradoxes of Neoliberalism and Human Rights; Part II : Questions of Narration, Representation, and Evidence; 7. Reading the Living Archives: The Witness of Literary Art; 8. Narrating Human Rights and the Limits of Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown; 9. Complicities of Witnessing in Joe Sacco's Palestine; 10. Dark Chamber, Colonial Scene: Post-9/11 Torture and Representation

Part III : Rethinking the "Subject" of Human Rights11. Human Rights as Violence and Enigma: Can Literature Really Be of Any Help with the Politics of Human Rights?; 12. Imagining Women as Human; 13. "Disaster Capitalism" and Human Rights: Embodiment and Subalternity in Indra Sinha's Animal's People; 14. Do Human Rights Need a Self? Buddhist Literature and the Samsaric Subject; Epilogue; List of Contributors; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-64637-X

1-283-46247-8

9786613462473

1-136-64638-8

0-203-80519-4

9780203805190

OCLC:

798533338