04948oam 2200841I 450 991077903910332120230126202901.01-136-64637-X1-283-46247-897866134624731-136-64638-80-203-80519-410.4324/9780203805190(CKB)2550000000097868(EBL)957589(OCoLC)798533338(SSID)ssj0000679351(PQKBManifestationID)11414998(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000679351(PQKBWorkID)10610189(PQKB)10566913(MiAaPQ)EBC957589(Au-PeEL)EBL957589(CaPaEBR)ebr10535028(CaONFJC)MIL346247(OCoLC)784034392(EXLCZ)99255000000009786820180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTheoretical perspectives on human rights and literature /edited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; foreword by Joseph R. SlaughterFirst edition.New York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (319 p.)Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;2Description based upon print version of record.0-415-70404-9 0-415-89097-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Discourse4. 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 RepresentationPart 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; IndexWhat 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 witnessingRoutledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;2.Human rights in literatureAtrocities in literatureViolence in literatureSocial justice in literatureLaw and literatureLiterature and societyLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature, Modern21st centuryHistory and criticismHuman rights in literature.Atrocities in literature.Violence in literature.Social justice in literature.Law and literature.Literature and society.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.809/.933581Goldberg Elizabeth Swanson1966-1546190Moore Alexandra Schultheis1546191MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779039103321Theoretical perspectives on human rights and literature3801593UNINA