The Novel of Human Rights defines a new, dynamic American literary
genre. It incorporates key debates within the contemporary human
rights movement in the United States, and in turn influences the
ideas and rhetoric of that discourse. In James Dawes's framing, the
novel of human rights takes as its theme a range of atrocities at
home and abroad, scrambling the distinction between human rights
within and beyond national borders. Some novels critique America's
conception of human rights by pointing out U.S. exploitation of
international crises. Other novels endorse an American ethos of
individualism and citizenship as the best hope for global equality.
Some narratives depict human rights workers as responding to an
urgent ethical necessity, while others see only inefficient
institutions dedicated to their own survival. Surveying the work of
Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers, Nathan
Englander, Francisco Goldman, Anthony Marra, and John Edgar
Wideman, among others, Dawes finds traces of slave narratives,
Holocaust literature, war novels, and expatriate novels, along with
earlier traditions of justice writing. The novel of human rights
responds to deep forces within America's politics, society, and
culture, Dawes shows. His illuminating study clarifies many ethical
dilemmas of today's local and global politics and helps us think
our way, through them, to a better future. Vibrant and modern, the
human rights novel reflects our own time and aspires to shape the
world we will leave for those who come after.
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