Goldberg, Elizabeth Swanson, Ed. Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Ed. <br/><br/>
Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature / 
edited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; foreword by Joseph R. Slaughter. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2012. 
 - xvi, 302 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;  2 .
 - Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;  2. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-291) and index. 
<br/><br/>Foreword: Rights on paper / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Introduction: Human rights and literature: the development of an interdiscipline / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore -- "Literature," the "rights of man," and narratives of atrocity: historical backgrounds to the culture of testimony / Julie Stone Peters -- Enabling fictions and novel subjects: the bildungsroman and international human rights law / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Top down, bottom up, horizontally: resignifying the universal in human rights discourse / Domna C. Stanton -- The social imaginary as a problematic for human rights / Meili Steele -- Intimations of what was to come: Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones and the indivisibility of human rights / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg -- Paradoxes of neoliberalism and human rights / Greg Mullins -- Reading the living archives: the witness of literary art / Carolyn Forché -- Narrating human rights and the limits of magic realism in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the clown / Elizabeth S. Anker -- Complicities of witnessing in Joe Sacco's Palestine / Wendy Kozol -- Dark chamber, colonial scene: post-9/11 torture and representation / Stephanie Athey -- Human rights as violence and enigma: can literature really be of any help with the politics of human rights? / Nick Mansfield -- Imagining women as human / Hephzibah Roskelly -- "Disaster capitalism" and human rights: embodiment and subalternity in Indra Sinha's Animal's people / Alexandra Schultheis Moore -- Do human rights need a self? Buddhist literature and the samsaric subject / Gregory Price Grieve -- Epilogue / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415890977 0415890977 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature <br/>Human Rights in Literature.<br/>Atrocities in Literature.<br/>Violence in Literature.<br/>Social Justice in Literature.<br/>Law and Literature.<br/>Literature and Society.<br/>Literature, Modern--20th century<br/>Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.933581  / GOL-T