Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge companion to human rights and literature / edited by Crystal Parikh (New York University).

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Parikh, Crystal

Description

xxi, 247 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 researchers, this Companion emphasizes both the literary and interdisciplinary dimensions of human rights and the humanities"--

Series Statement

Cambridge companions to literature

Uniform Title

Cambridge companions to literature.

Alternative Title

Human rights and literature

Subject

• Human rights in literature
• Law in literature
• State, The, in literature
• Social justice in literature
• Humanitarianism in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.

Contents

Chronology of major works and events, 1215-2018 / Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama -- Introduction / Crystal Parikh -- Part I. Genealogies and contexts. Recounting history, locating precursors for human rights / Sarah Winter -- Humanitarianism's way in the world: on missionary and emergency imaginaries / Kerry Bystrom and Eleni Coundouriotis -- Literature, human rights, and the Cold War / Andrew Hammond -- Human rights in the vernacular: translating and inventing rights outside the state / David Palumbo-Liu -- Part II. Fashioning methods. Law and literature, the procedural and the performative / Audrey J. Golden -- Human rights modes and media / Lieve Gies -- Remembering the forgetting: human rights literature and memory work / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials -- Queering human rights: the transgender child / Wendy S. Hesford and Rachel A. Lewis -- Part III. Generic representations. Narrating the human person / Sunny Xiang -- The dramas of human rights: documentary theater and performance / Brenda G. Werth -- Poetic justice and the idea of poetic redress / Rajeev S. Patke -- Truth-telling: reportage and creative nonfiction / James Dawes -- Visualizing the world: graphic novels, comics, and human rights / Charlotta Salmi -- Part IV. Writing human rights. Perpetrators, victims, and beneficiaries: the subjects of human rights / Elizabeth Swanson -- Routing emotions, forming humans: affect, aesthetics, rhetoric / Greg A. Mullins -- Beyond sovereignty: reimagining vulnerability and security / Alexandra S. Moore -- Select bibliography / Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama.

Call Number

JFE 19-11280

ISBN

• 9781108481328
• 1108481329
• 9781108722209
• 1108722202
• 9781108665551 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019000686
• 40029360642

OCLC

1088601479

Title

The Cambridge companion to human rights and literature / edited by Crystal Parikh (New York University).

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.

Added Author

Parikh, Crystal, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781108665551

Other Standard Identifier

40029360642

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11280