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Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women's Literature; Preface; Note; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction: The Ethical Turn in African Literature; African Feminism: Old Wine in a New Wine Bottle?; African Feminism: A Short Historical Sketch; The Weaknesses of African Feminist Theory; Female Subjectivity and African Feminist Discourse; Empathy: Making Sense of a Concept; Human Rights and Literature; Narratives, Privilege, and the Pain of Other People; African Women's Narratives and Feminist Empathy; Notes; 2 Feminism as Fairness; We Should All Be Feminists
John Rawls and the Original PositionWhy Does Society Hate My Body?; Narrating Justice and Fairness; Guilt and the Search for Justice; Agent-Regret as Necessary for Fairness; Imagining Human Rights; Notes; 3 Diary of Intense Pain: The Postcolonial Trap and Women's Rights; The Limits of Postcolonial Criticism; Pain and the Challenge of Being an African Woman in the Twenty-first Century; Of Pain and the Demand for Empathy; Pain, Solidarity, and Search for Community; Mugabe Syndrome and the Challenges of Postcoloniality; Notes; 4 The Body in Pain and the Politics of Culture
The Politics of Female CircumcisionI Tell of the Body in Pain; Bodily Pain as a Trope for Existential Pain; Narrative, Empathy, and Community; Notes; 5 Abstractions as Disablers of Women's Rights; Lola Shoneyin: Polygamy as a Disabling Institution; Raising Questions, Raising Awareness; Nationalism and Human Rights; When Right Means Life; Notes; 6 The Enslaved Body as a Symbol of Universal Human Rights Abuse; Slavery as a Metaphor of Abuse of Human Rights; Dreams as an Expression of Human Rights; Women in Search of Lost Dignity; Historical Consciousness and Human Rights
Conclusion: The Rights of One Are the Rights of AllNotes; 7 Human Rights as Liberatory Social Thought; Human Rights as Social Thought; Violence and the Curse of Silence; As the Family Goes, So Does the Nation; How to Liberate an Oppressed Society; Solidarity as an Exercise in Empathy; Notes; 8 The Obligation to Bear Testimony to Human Rights Abuses; Stories and the Ethics of Testimony; Jabbeh Wesley's Poetics of Attention; The Silence the Dead Refuse to Take; Remembering as Confronting Meaninglessness; Notes; Bibliography; Index
John Rawls and the Original PositionWhy Does Society Hate My Body?; Narrating Justice and Fairness; Guilt and the Search for Justice; Agent-Regret as Necessary for Fairness; Imagining Human Rights; Notes; 3 Diary of Intense Pain: The Postcolonial Trap and Women's Rights; The Limits of Postcolonial Criticism; Pain and the Challenge of Being an African Woman in the Twenty-first Century; Of Pain and the Demand for Empathy; Pain, Solidarity, and Search for Community; Mugabe Syndrome and the Challenges of Postcoloniality; Notes; 4 The Body in Pain and the Politics of Culture
The Politics of Female CircumcisionI Tell of the Body in Pain; Bodily Pain as a Trope for Existential Pain; Narrative, Empathy, and Community; Notes; 5 Abstractions as Disablers of Women's Rights; Lola Shoneyin: Polygamy as a Disabling Institution; Raising Questions, Raising Awareness; Nationalism and Human Rights; When Right Means Life; Notes; 6 The Enslaved Body as a Symbol of Universal Human Rights Abuse; Slavery as a Metaphor of Abuse of Human Rights; Dreams as an Expression of Human Rights; Women in Search of Lost Dignity; Historical Consciousness and Human Rights
Conclusion: The Rights of One Are the Rights of AllNotes; 7 Human Rights as Liberatory Social Thought; Human Rights as Social Thought; Violence and the Curse of Silence; As the Family Goes, So Does the Nation; How to Liberate an Oppressed Society; Solidarity as an Exercise in Empathy; Notes; 8 The Obligation to Bear Testimony to Human Rights Abuses; Stories and the Ethics of Testimony; Jabbeh Wesley's Poetics of Attention; The Silence the Dead Refuse to Take; Remembering as Confronting Meaninglessness; Notes; Bibliography; Index