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Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies (Hardcover)
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Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies (Hardcover)
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Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of
1948, the discourse of human rights has expanded to include not
just civil and political rights but also economic, social,
cultural, and, most recently, collective rights. Given their broad
scope, human rights issues are useful touchstones in the humanities
classroom and benefit from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural
pedagogy in which objects of study are situated in historical,
legal, philosophical, literary, and rhetorical contexts. Teaching
Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies is a sourcebook of
inventive approaches and best practices for teachers looking to
make human rights the focus of their undergraduate and graduate
courses. Contributors first explore what it means to be human and
conceptual issues such as law and the state. Next, they approach
human rights and related social-justice issues from the
perspectives of particular geographic regions and historical eras,
through the lens of genre, and in relation to specific rights
violations-for example, storytelling and testimonio in Latin
America or poetry created in the aftermath of the Armenian
genocide. Essays then describe efforts to cultivate students'
capacity for ethical reading practices and to deepen their
understanding of the stakes and artistic dimensions of human rights
representations, drawing on active learning and experimental class
contexts. The final section, on resources, directs readers to
further readings in history, criticism, theory, and literary and
visual studies and provides a chronology of human rights legal
documents.
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