Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Swanson Goldberg, Elizabeth; Schultheis Moore, Alexandra

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Produktbeschreibung

What 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 shape representations of human rights violations and claims in literary texts across a range of genres (including poetry, the novel, graphic narrative, short story, testimonial, and religious fables); and consider a range of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights and their representations. The authors reflect on the imperial and colonial histories of human rights as well as the cynical mobilization of human rights discourses in the name of war, violence, and repression; at the same time, they take seriously Gayatri Spivak's exhortation that human rights is something that we "cannot not want," exploring the central function of storytelling at the heart of all human rights claims, discourses, and policies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136646386
• Artikelnr.: 38269846

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg is Associate Professor of English at Babson College, where she teaches courses in international literatures and human rights. She is author of Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative and Human Rights (2007) as well as articles in books and in journals such as Callaloo, South Atlantic Review, and Peace Review. Alexandra Schultheis Moore is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of Regenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family (2004) as well as essays in edited collections and journals including Contemporary Literature, South Asian Review, Peace Review, and Genders.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Foreword
Joseph R. Slaughter Acknowledgments Introduction Human Rights and Literature: The Development of an Interdiscipline
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore I. Histories
Imaginaries
and Paradoxes of Literature and Human Rights 1: "Literature
" the "Rights of Man
" and Narratives of Atrocity: Historical Backgrounds to the Culture of Testimony
Julie Stone Peters 2: Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects: The Bildungsroman and International Human Rights Law
Joseph R. Slaughter 3: Top Down
Bottom Up
Horizontally: Resignifying the Universal in Human Rights Discourse
Domna C. Stanton 4: Literature
the Social Imaginary and Human Rights
Meili Steele 5: Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and the Indivisibility of Human Rights
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg 6: Paradoxes of Neoliberalism and Human Rights
Greg Mullins II. Questions of Narration
Representation
and Evidence 7: Reading the Living Archives: The Witness of Literary Art
Carolyn Forché 8: Narrating Human Rights and the Limits of Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown
Elizabeth S. Anker 9: Complicities of Transnational Witnessing in Joe Sacco's Palestine
Wendy Kozol 10: Dark Chamber
Colonial Scene: Post-9/11 Torture and Representation
Stephanie Athey III. Rethinking the 'Subject' of Human Rights 11: Human Rights as Violence and Enigma: Can Literature Really Be of Any Help with the Politics of Human Rights?
Nick Mansfield 12: Imagining Women as Human
Hephzibah Roskelly 13: "Disaster Capitalism" and Human Rights: Indra Embodiment and Subalternity in Indra Sinha's Animal's People
Alexandra Schultheis Moore 14: Do Human Rights Need a Self? Buddhist Literature and the Samsaric Subject
Gregory Price Grieve IV. Epilogue Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore