Lena Khor

Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Rather than viewing human rights as an immutable and ill-defined entity, Khor argues for the recognition of human rights as a social construct comprised of language and language use. Her case studies of Doctors Without Borders, Paul Rusesabagina and Hotel Rwanda, and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost support a new theoretical framework based on a global discourse network of human rights that enables textual and human actors to increase their power as speaking subjects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317119791
• Artikelnr.: 45095903

Autorenporträt

Lena Khor is Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, where she teaches courses on postcolonial studies, globalization, and human rights. Her research interests include human rights and humanitarian discourses, globalization processes, and contemporary World Anglophone literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Human Rights Discourse and its Global Network
Chapter 2 Human Rights Survivors as Multitude
Chapter 3 Human Rights Heroes/Humanitarian Saviors as Empire and Counter-Empire
Chapter 4 Literal and Literary Bystanders as Multitude and the Common
Chapter 101 Conclusion The Global-National and Human-Personal Paradoxes of Human Rights Discourse