Fictions of dignity : embodying human rights in world literature /

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Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, part...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Temas:
1900-1999
Human rights in literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans la littérature.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Justice sociale dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Human rights in literature
Literature, Modern
Postcolonialism in literature
Social justice in literature
Mensenrechten.
Bellettrie.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : constructs by which we live
  • Bodily integrity and its exclusions
  • Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice
  • Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children
  • Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero
  • J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals
  • Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice
  • Coda : small places, close to home.

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