The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Edited with Introduction and Notes by Judson Herrman, Edited by Crystal Parikh
Cambridge University Press, 7/11/2019
EAN 9781108481328, ISBN10: 1108481329

Hardcover, 280 pages, 23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm
Language: English

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
Part III. Generic Representations
9. Narrating the human person Sunny Xiang
10. The dramas of human rights
documentary theater and performance Brenda S. Werth
11. Poetic justice and the idea of poetic redress Rajeev S. Patke
12. Truth-telling
reportage and creative nonfiction James Dawes
13. Visualizing the world
graphic novels, comics, and human rights Charlotte Salmi
Part IV. Writing Human Rights
14. Perpetrators, victims, and beneficiaries
the subjects of human rights Elizabeth Swanson
15. Routing emotions, forming humans
affect, aesthetics, rhetoric Greg A. Mullins
16. Beyond sovereignty
reimagining vulnerability and security Alexandra S. Moore
Bibliography Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama.