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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a
comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this
emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and
literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The
first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes,
necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and
humanities. Sections cover: subjects, with pieces on subjectivity,
humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body
forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted
and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the
oral contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time
and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts,
considering the power and limits of human rights literature,
rhetoric, and visual culture Drawn from many different global
contexts, the essays offer an ideal introduction for those
approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first
time, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives,
or interested in new directions for future scholarship.
Contributors: Chris Abani, Jonathan E. Abel, Elizabeth S. Anker,
Arturo Arias, Ariella Azoulay, Ralph Bauer, Anna Bernard, Brenda
Carr Vellino, Eleni Coundouriotis, James Dawes, Erik Doxtader, Marc
D. Falkoff, Keith P. Feldman, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Audrey J.
Golden, Mark Goodale, Barbara Harlow, Wendy S. Hesford, Peter
Hitchcock, David Holloway, Christine Hong, Madelaine Hron, Meg
Jensen, Luz Angelica Kirschner, Susan Maslan, Julie Avril Minich,
Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Greg Mullins, Laura T. Murphy, Hanna
Musiol, Makau Mutua, Zoe Norridge, David Palumbo-Liu, Crystal
Parikh, Katrina M. Powell, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Mark Sanders,
Karen-Magrethe Simonsen, Joseph R. Slaughter, Sharon Sliwinski,
Sidonie Smith, Domna Stanton, Sarah G. Waisvisz, Belinda Walzer,
Ban Wang, Julia Watson, Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter.
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The Debt Age (Hardcover)
Peter Hitchcock, Jeffrey DiLeo, Sophia McClennen
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This collection of essays, by some of the most distinguished public
intellectuals and cultural critics in America explores various
dimensions of what it means to live in the age of debt. They ask,
what is the debt age? For that matter, what is debt? Is its meaning
transhistorical or transcultural? Or is it imbued in ideology and
thus historically contingent? What is the relationship between debt
and theory? Whose debt is acknowledged and whose is ignored? Who is
the paradigmatic subject of debt? How has debt affected
contemporary academic culture? Their responses to these and other
aspects of debt are sure to become required reading for anyone who
wants to understand what it means to live in the debt age.
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The Debt Age (Paperback)
Peter Hitchcock, Jeffrey DiLeo, Sophia McClennen
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This collection of essays, by some of the most distinguished public
intellectuals and cultural critics in America explores various
dimensions of what it means to live in the age of debt. They ask,
what is the debt age? For that matter, what is debt? Is its meaning
transhistorical or transcultural? Or is it imbued in ideology and
thus historically contingent? What is the relationship between debt
and theory? Whose debt is acknowledged and whose is ignored? Who is
the paradigmatic subject of debt? How has debt affected
contemporary academic culture? Their responses to these and other
aspects of debt are sure to become required reading for anyone who
wants to understand what it means to live in the debt age.
This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how
political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary
media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under
neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions)
genre becomes "mixed." Once stable, discreet categories such as
comedy, horror, drama and news and entertainment have become
blurred so as to be indistinguishable. The classic modern paradigm
of comedy/tragedy no longer holds, if it ever did. Moreover, as
politics becomes more economic and less moral or normative under
neoliberalism, we are able to see new resistance to comedic genres
that support neoliberal strategies to hide racial and gender
injustice such as unlaughter, ambiguity, and anti-comedy. There is
also an increasing interest with comedy as a form of entertainment
on the political right following both Brexit in the UK and the
election of Trump in the U.S. Several essays confront this
conservative comedy and place it in context of the larger humor
history of these debates over free speech and political
correctness. For comedians too, entry into popular media now
follows the familiar neoliberal script of the celebration of
self-help with the increasing admonishment of those who fail to win
in market terms. Laughter plays an important role in shaming and
valorizing (often at the same time!) the precarious subject in the
aftermath of global recession. Doubling down on austerity,
self-help policies and equivocation in the face of extremist
challenges (right and left), politics foils the critical comedian's
attempt to satirize and parody its object. Characterized by
ambiguity, mixed genre and the increasing use of anti-humor,
political comedy mirrors the social and political world it mocks,
parodies and celebrates often with lackluster results suggesting
that the joke might be on us, as audiences.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a
comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this
emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and
literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The
first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes,
necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and
humanities. Sections cover: subjects, with pieces on subjectivity,
humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body
forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted
and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the
oral contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time
and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts,
considering the power and limits of human rights literature,
rhetoric, and visual culture Drawn from many different global
contexts, the essays offer an ideal introduction for those
approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first
time, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives,
or interested in new directions for future scholarship.
Contributors: Chris Abani, Jonathan E. Abel, Elizabeth S. Anker,
Arturo Arias, Ariella Azoulay, Ralph Bauer, Anna Bernard, Brenda
Carr Vellino, Eleni Coundouriotis, James Dawes, Erik Doxtader, Marc
D. Falkoff, Keith P. Feldman, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Audrey J.
Golden, Mark Goodale, Barbara Harlow, Wendy S. Hesford, Peter
Hitchcock, David Holloway, Christine Hong, Madelaine Hron, Meg
Jensen, Luz Angelica Kirschner, Susan Maslan, Julie Avril Minich,
Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Greg Mullins, Laura T. Murphy, Hanna
Musiol, Makau Mutua, Zoe Norridge, David Palumbo-Liu, Crystal
Parikh, Katrina M. Powell, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Mark Sanders,
Karen-Magrethe Simonsen, Joseph R. Slaughter, Sharon Sliwinski,
Sidonie Smith, Domna C. Stanton, Sarah G. Waisvisz, Belinda Walzer,
Ban Wang, Julia Watson, Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter.
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