TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anker,Elizabeth S.
TI  - Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature
SN  - 9780801465635
AV  - PN56.H79 
U1  - 809/.933581 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Human rights in literature
KW  - Social justice in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Fictions of Dignity -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructs by Which We Live -- 1. Bodily Integrity and its Exclusions -- 2. Embodying Human Rights: Toward a 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
N2  - Elizabeth S. Anker examines human rights in the narrative imagination and, in the process, makes a compelling case for literature as a uniquely valuable point of entry into theoretical discussions of human rights
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