TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldberg, Elizabeth Swanson, Ed.
AU  - Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Ed.
AU  - Goldberg,Elizabeth Swanson
AU  - Moore,Alexandra Schultheis
TI  - Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature
T2  - Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
SN  - 9780415890977
U1  - 809.933581 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Literature
KW  - Human Rights in Literature
KW  - Atrocities in Literature
KW  - Violence in Literature
KW  - Social Justice in Literature
KW  - Law and Literature
KW  - Literature and Society
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-291) and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1213/2011008069-b.html
ER  -