Human Rights, Inc. : : The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law /

Human Rights, Inc. : : The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law / / Joseph R. Slaughter.

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In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of “world literature” and international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international law share...

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Slaughter, Joseph R.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (436 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preamble
  • The Legibility of Human Rights
  • 1. Novel Subjects and Enabling Fictions: The Formal Articulation of International Human Rights Law
  • 2. Becoming Plots: Human Rights, the Bildungsroman, and the Novelization of Citizenship
  • 3. Normalizing Narrative Forms of Human Rights: The (Dys)Function of the Public Sphere
  • 4. Compulsory Development: Narrative Self- Sponsorship and the Right to Self-Determination
  • 5. Clefs a` Roman: Reading, Writing, and International Humanitarianism
  • Codicil
  • Intimations of a Human Rights International: ‘‘The Rights of Man; or What Are We [Reading] For?’’
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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