@article{1470076,
      recid = {1470076},
      author = {Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe,},
      title = {Slavery and the forensic theatricality of human rights in  the Spanish empire /},
      pages = {1 online resource (302 pages)},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of  human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the  sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire.  The book centers on the question: how do literary texts use  theatrical, multisensorial strategies to denunciate the  violence against enslaved people and make a claim for their  rights? The Spanish context is particularly interesting  because of its early tradition of human rights thinking in  the Salamanca School (especially Bartolom de Las Casas),  developed in relation to slavery and colonialism. Taking  its point of departure in forensic aesthetics, the book  analyzes five forms of non-narrative theatricality:  allegorical, carnivalesque, tragicomic, melodramatic and  tragic. Karen-Margrethe Simonsen is Associate Professor of  Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1470076},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31531-2},
}