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JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE AFRICAN IMAGINATION : we, too, are humans



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Autore: Eze Chielozona Visualizza persona
Titolo: JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE AFRICAN IMAGINATION : we, too, are humans Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: [S.l.], : ROUTLEDGE, 2021
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 171 pages)
Disciplina: 323.096
Soggetto topico: Human rights - Africa
Soggetto geografico: Africa
Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Soggetto non controllato: Literature: history and criticism
Human rights, civil rights
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Narratives and the Common Good -- Chapter 2: Ecological Violence and the Quest for Justice -- Chapter 3: Mythic Consciousness, Witchcraft, and Human Rights Abuses -- Chapter 4: Barriers to Being: Albinism, Disability, and Recognition -- Chapter 5: Intimate Justice: Homophobia and Human Dignity -- Chapter 6: Dignity of Woman: From Misogyny to Sex-trafficking -- Conclusion: Politics of Love and the Common Good
Sommario/riassunto: Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa's robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author discusses variousquests forjustice such as environmental justice, social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature and the environment. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003148272, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Titolo autorizzato: Justice and human rights in the African imagination  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-00-314827-1
1-003-14827-1
1-000-37625-7
1-000-37627-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910476759203321
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Serie: Routledge contemporary Africa series.