- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 262 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Fictions of dignity (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Fictions of dignity (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals -- Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice -- Coda : small places, close to home.
- LCCN
- 2012015418
- OCLC
- ssj0000783272
- Author
Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-
- Title
Fictions of dignity [electronic resource] : embodying human rights in world literature / Elizabeth S. Anker.
- Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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