Fictions of Dignity : : Embodying Human Rights in World Literature / / Elizabeth S. Anker.
Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, part...
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Anker, Elizabeth S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fictions of Dignity : Embodying Human Rights in World Literature / Elizabeth S. Anker. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012] ©2017 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructs by Which We Live -- 1. Bodily Integrity and Its Exclusions -- 2. Embodying Human Rights: Toward a Phenomenology of Social Justice -- 3. Constituting the Liberal Subject of Rights: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children -- 4. Women’s Rights and the Lure of Self-Determination in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero -- 5. J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: The Rights of Desire and the Embodied Lives of Animals -- 6. Arundhati Roy’s “Return to the Things Themselves”: Phenomenology and the Challenge of Justice -- Coda: Small Places, Close to Home -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. In Fictions of Dignity, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that helps to explain many of the contemporary and historical failures of human rights, revealing why and how lives are excluded from human rights protections along the lines of race, gender, class, disability, and species membership. In the process, Anker examines the vital work performed by a particular kind of narrative imagination in fostering respect for human rights. Drawing on phenomenology, Anker suggests how an embodied politics of reading might restore a vital fleshiness to the overly abstract, decorporealized subject of liberal rights.Each of the novels Anker examines approaches human rights in terms of limits and paradoxes. Rushdie's Midnight's Children addresses the obstacles to incorporating rights into a formerly colonized nation's legal culture. El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero takes up controversies over women’s freedoms in Islamic society. In Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee considers the disappointments of post-apartheid reconciliation in South Africa. And in The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy confronts an array of human rights abuses widespread in contemporary India. Each of these literary case studies further demonstrates the relevance of embodiment to both comprehending and redressing the failures of human rights, even while those narratives refuse simplistic ideals or solutions. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Human rights in literature. Literature, Modern History and criticism 20th century. Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism. Postcolonialism in literature. Social justice in literature. England. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics . bisacsh legal language, legal interpretation, postcolonial theory, civil rights and law, gender protection, racial protection, class protection, disability law, liberal rights. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801465635 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801465635 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801465635/original |
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