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Fictions of Dignity : Embodying Human Rights in World Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801465635
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fictions of DignityDDC classification:
  • 809/.933581
LOC classification:
  • PN56.H79
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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