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Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature (Paperback)
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Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of
human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make
sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the
literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights
concerns? Essays in this volume theorize how both literature and
reading literarily can shape understanding of human rights in
productive ways. Contributors to Theoretical Perspectives on Human
Rights and Literature provide a shared history of modern literature
and rights; theorize how trauma, ethics, subjectivity, and
witnessing shape representations of human rights violations and
claims in literary texts across a range of genres (including
poetry, the novel, graphic narrative, short story, testimonial, and
religious fables); and consider a range of civil, political,
social, economic, and cultural rights and their representations.
The authors reflect on the imperial and colonial histories of human
rights as well as the cynical mobilization of human rights
discourses in the name of war, violence, and repression; at the
same time, they take seriously Gayatri Spivak's exhortation that
human rights is something that we "cannot not want," exploring the
central function of storytelling at the heart of all human rights
claims, discourses, and policies.
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