عنوان

Fictions of dignity :

شابک

080146563X

شابک

9780801465635

شابک اشتباه

0801451361

شابک اشتباه

9780801451362

عنوان اصلي

Fictions of dignity :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

embodying human rights in world literature /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Elizabeth S. Anker.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Ithaca :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cornell University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2013.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals -- Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice -- Coda : small places, close to home.

بدون عنوان

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متن يادداشت

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.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

JSTOR

شماره انبار

22573/ctt8h6cs

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

0801451361

موضوع مستند نشده

Human rights in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Postcolonialism in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Social justice in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Bellettrie.

موضوع مستند نشده

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

موضوع مستند نشده

Human rights in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Literature, Modern.

موضوع مستند نشده

Mensenrechten.

موضوع مستند نشده

Postcolonialism in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Social justice in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

BIO-- 007000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

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کد سيستم

کد سيستم

کد سيستم

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Anker, Elizabeth S., (Elizabeth Susan),1973-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822130807.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y