1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461296003321

Autore

Ramcharan B. G.

Titolo

The UN Human Rights Council / / Bertrand G. Ramcharan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-46018-1

9786613460189

1-136-65702-9

0-203-80667-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 p.)

Collana

Routledge global institutions ; ; 55

Disciplina

341.4/8

Soggetti

Human rights

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The UN Human Rights Council; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Mandate and roles; 2. Institutional and procedural architecture; 3. The Universal Periodic Review; 4. Legislative role; 5. Promotional and educational role; 6. Preventive role; 7. Fact-finding role; 8. Protection role; 9. The Advisory Committee; 10. NGOs and the council; 11. Conclusions; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The UN Human Rights Council provides a detailed insight into this important organization. The UN was founded in the hope that lasting peace would be built on the foundations of human rights and economic and social progress. In 2006 the Commission on Human Rights was replaced by the Human Rights Council as the principal UN body concerned with human rights. It is even possible that the council might eventually become a principal organ of the world organization. The Human Rights Council is already the subject of major public interest and controversy. The Council has been critic



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784837003321

Autore

Newell Stephanie <1968->

Titolo

West African literatures [[electronic resource] ] : ways of reading / / Stephanie Newell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-383-04432-5

1-280-90573-5

0-19-153837-X

0-19-151523-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English

Classificazione

17.76

Disciplina

820.9/966

Soggetti

West African literature (English) - History and criticism

Africa, West Intellectual life

Africa, West In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Contents; List of maps; West African Timeline; 1 Introduction: Where is 'West Africa'?; 2 Négritude; 3 Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature; 4 Oral Literatures; 5 Lost and Found in Translation; 6 Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in the Colonial-scape; 7 Popular Literature; 8 Griots with Pens in their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s-1990s; 9 Feminism and the Complex Space of Women's Writing; 10 Marxism and West African Literature; 11 The Three 'Posts': Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism

12 Experimental Writing by the 'Third Generation'13 'Queering' West African Literatures: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking, and Véronique Tadjo; 14 Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopaedic account, but to consider a selection of the region's literatures in relation to prevailing discussions about literature and postcolonialism. - ;The Oxford Studies in



Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This stud