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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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