Writing wrongs : the cultural construction of human rights in India /
Nayar, Pramod K.
London : Routledge,
2012.
"This book examines the 'cultural apparatus' of human rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, literature, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries. ... [It] emphasizes the need for an ethical turn to literary-cultural studies and a cultural turn to Human Rights studies"--Cover, p. [4].
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-194) and index.
1. Introduction: the culture of human rights -- 2. Atrocity, the trauma narrative and the victim-subject -- 3. The other victim: the survivor as witness and the work of testimony -- 4. The postcolonial bildungsroman, 'knowing subalternity' and the citizen-subject -- 5. Human rights, narrative and the sympathetic imagination -- 6. Conclusion: reading matters.
"This book examines the 'cultural apparatus' of human rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, literature, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries. ... [It] emphasizes the need for an ethical turn to literary-cultural studies and a cultural turn to Human Rights studies"--Cover, p. [4].
Human rights
Victims
Human rights in literature.
Human rights in mass media.
Human rights