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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Slaughter, Joseph R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.
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?"