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Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature

Title
Fictions of dignity [electronic resource] : embodying human rights in world literature / Elizabeth S. Anker.
Author
Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

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Description
1 online resource (ix, 262 p.)
Uniform Title
Fictions of dignity (Online)
Alternative Title
Fictions of dignity (Online)
Subject
  • Human rights in literature
  • Social justice in literature
  • Postcolonialism in literature
  • Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index.
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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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Available onsite at NYPL
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