LEADER 04948oam 2200841I 450 001 9910779039103321 005 20230126202901.0 010 $a1-136-64637-X 010 $a1-283-46247-8 010 $a9786613462473 010 $a1-136-64638-8 010 $a0-203-80519-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203805190 035 $a(CKB)2550000000097868 035 $a(EBL)957589 035 $a(OCoLC)798533338 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000679351 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11414998 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000679351 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10610189 035 $a(PQKB)10566913 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC957589 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL957589 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10535028 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL346247 035 $a(OCoLC)784034392 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000097868 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTheoretical perspectives on human rights and literature /$fedited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; foreword by Joseph R. Slaughter 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-70404-9 311 $a0-415-89097-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a4. 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 327 $aPart 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 330 $aWhat can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize how both literature and reading literarily can shape understanding of human rights in productive ways. Contributors to Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature provide a shared history of modern literature and rights; theorize how trauma, ethics, subjectivity, and witnessing 410 0$aRoutledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;$v2. 606 $aHuman rights in literature 606 $aAtrocities in literature 606 $aViolence in literature 606 $aSocial justice in literature 606 $aLaw and literature 606 $aLiterature and society 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aHuman rights in literature. 615 0$aAtrocities in literature. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 615 0$aSocial justice in literature. 615 0$aLaw and literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.933581 701 $aGoldberg$b Elizabeth Swanson$f1966-$01546190 701 $aMoore$b Alexandra Schultheis$01546191 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779039103321 996 $aTheoretical perspectives on human rights and literature$93801593 997 $aUNINA