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Record Nr.

UNINA9910741167103321

Autore

Galchinsky Michael

Titolo

The Modes of Human Rights Literature : Towards a Culture without Borders / / by Michael Galchinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9783319318516

3319318519

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 132 p.)

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Comparative literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Culture - Study and teaching

Comparative Literature

Contemporary Literature

Cultural Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- The Dream of a Culture without Borders  -- Lament as Transitional Justice -- Laughter and the Subjected Subject -- Towards a Global Civil Culture -- Works Cited.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Michael Galchinsky is Professor of English, an affiliate of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy at Georgia State University, and a Fellow at the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology, USA. He writes on human



rights literature, international human rights law, and Jewish studies.