001477799 000__ 05643nam\a22007815i\4500 001477799 001__ 1477799 001477799 003__ DE-B1597 001477799 005__ 20231026034830.0 001477799 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477799 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477799 008__ 230103t20222008nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477799 020__ $$a9780823291762 001477799 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823291762$$2doi 001477799 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)566021 001477799 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306539897 001477799 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477799 0410_ $$aeng 001477799 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477799 072_7 $$aLIT000000$$2bisacsh 001477799 1001_ $$aSlaughter, Joseph R., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477799 24510 $$aHuman Rights, Inc. :$$bThe World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law /$$cJoseph R. Slaughter. 001477799 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477799 264_4 $$c©2008 001477799 300__ $$a1 online resource (436 p.) 001477799 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477799 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477799 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477799 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477799 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tPreamble -- $$tThe Legibility of Human Rights -- $$t1. Novel Subjects and Enabling Fictions: The Formal Articulation of International Human Rights Law -- $$t2. Becoming Plots: Human Rights, the Bildungsroman, and the Novelization of Citizenship -- $$t3. Normalizing Narrative Forms of Human Rights: The (Dys)Function of the Public Sphere -- $$t4. Compulsory Development: Narrative Self- Sponsorship and the Right to Self-Determination -- $$t5. Clefs a` Roman: Reading, Writing, and International Humanitarianism -- $$tCodicil -- $$tIntimations of a Human Rights International: ''The Rights of Man; or What Are We [Reading] For?'' -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001477799 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477799 520__ $$aIn this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature" and international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel of coming of age, fills out this image, offering a conceptual vocabulary, a humanist social vision, and a narrative grammar for what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and early literary theorists both call "the free and full development of the human personality." Revising our received understanding of the relationship between law and literature, Slaughter suggests that this narrative form has acted as a cultural surrogate for the weak executive authority of international law, naturalizing the assumptions and conditions that make human rights appear commonsensical. As a kind of novelistic correlative to human rights law, the Bildungsroman has thus been doing some of the sociocultural work of enforcement that the law cannot do for itself. This analysis of the cultural work of law and of the social work of literature challenges traditional Eurocentric histories of both international law and the dissemination of the novel. Taking his point of departure in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, Slaughter focuses on recent postcolonial versions of the coming-of-age story to show how the promise of human rights becomes legible in narrative and how the novel and the law are complicit in contemporary projects of globalization: in colonialism, neoimperalism, humanitarianism, and the spread of multinational consumer capitalism. Slaughter raises important practical and ethical questions that we must confront in advocating for human rights and reading world literature-imperatives that, today more than ever, are intertwined. 001477799 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477799 546__ $$aIn English. 001477799 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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