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The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature

Author: Crystal Parikh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108722209
Published In: July 2019
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently generated innovative and timely perspectives on the history, meaning, and scope of human rights. The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature introduces this new and exciting field of study in the humanities. It explores the historical and institutional contexts, theoretical concepts, genres, and methods that literature and human rights share. Equally accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researches, this Companion emphasizes both the literary and interdisciplinary dimensions of human rights and the humanities.

Chronology of major works and events, 1215-2018 Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama

Introduction Crystal Parikh

Part I. Genealogies and Contexts:

1. Recounting history, locating precursors for human rights Sarah Winter

2. Humanitarianism's way in the world: on missionary and emergency imaginaries Kerry Bystrom and Eleni Coundouriotis

3. Literature, human rights and the Cold War Andrew Hammond

4. Human rights in the vernacular: translating and inventing rights outside the state David Palumbo-Liu

Part II. Fashioning Methods:

5. Law and literature, the procedural and the performative Audrey J. Golden

6. Human rights modes and media Lieve Gies

7. Remembering the forgetting: human rights literature and memory work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

8. Queering human rights: the transgender child Wendy S. Hesford and Rachel A. Lewis