The Cambridge companion to human rights and literature / edited by Crystal Parikh (New York University).
Parikh, Crystal, editor.
2019
PN56.H79 C36 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
The Cambridge companion to human rights and literature / edited by Crystal Parikh (New York University).
ISBN
9781108481328 (hardcover)
1108481329 (hardcover)
9781108722209 (paperback)
1108722202 (paperback)
9781108665551 (electronic book)
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 247 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PN56.H79 C36 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.933581
Summary
"Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently generated innovative and timely perspectives on the history, meaning, and scope of human rights. The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature introduces this new and exciting field of study in the humanities. It explores the historical and institutional contexts, theoretical concepts, genres, and methods that literature and human rights share. Equally accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researchers, this Companion emphasizes both the literary and interdisciplinary dimensions of human rights and the humanities"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.
Added Author
Parikh, Crystal, editor.
Series
Cambridge companions to literature.
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Chronology of major works and events, 1215-2018 / Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama
Introduction / Crystal Parikh
Part I. Genealogies and contexts. Recounting history, locating precursors for human rights / Sarah Winter
Humanitarianism's way in the world: on missionary and emergency imaginaries / Kerry Bystrom and Eleni Coundouriotis
Literature, human rights, and the Cold War / Andrew Hammond
Human rights in the vernacular: translating and inventing rights outside the state / David Palumbo-Liu
Part II. Fashioning methods. Law and literature, the procedural and the performative / Audrey J. Golden
Human rights modes and media / Lieve Gies
Remembering the forgetting: human rights literature and memory work / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Queering human rights: the transgender child / Wendy S. Hesford and Rachel A. Lewis
Part III. Generic representations. Narrating the human person / Sunny Xiang
The dramas of human rights: documentary theater and performance / Brenda G. Werth
Poetic justice and the idea of poetic redress / Rajeev S. Patke
Truth-telling: reportage and creative nonfiction / James Dawes
Visualizing the world: graphic novels, comics, and human rights / Charlotta Salmi
Part IV. Writing human rights. Perpetrators, victims, and beneficiaries: the subjects of human rights / Elizabeth Swanson
Routing emotions, forming humans: affect, aesthetics, rhetoric / Greg A. Mullins
Beyond sovereignty: reimagining vulnerability and security / Alexandra S. Moore
Select bibliography / Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama.

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