Human Rights, Inc. : the world novel, narrative form, and international law /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Slaughter, Joseph R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Fiction > History and criticism.
Literature and society.
Bildungsromans > History and criticism.
Human rights.
Society in literature.
Human Rights
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Society in literature
Bildungsromans
Fiction
Human rights
Literature and society
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?"

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