Human Rights, Inc. : the world novel, narrative form, and international law /
In 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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2007.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preamble : the legibility of human rights
- ch. 1. Novel subjects and enabling fictions : the fomal articulation of international human rights law
- ch. 2. Becoming plots : human rights, the bildungsroman, and the novelization of citizenship
- ch. 3. Normalizing narrative forms of human rights : the (dys)function of the public sphere
- ch. 4. Compulsory development : narrative self-sponsorship and the right to self-determination
- ch. 5. Clefs à roman : reading, writing, and international humanitarianism
- Codicil : intimations of a human rights international : "the rights of man; or what are we (reading} for?"