Title: Human Rights, Inc. : the world novel, narrative form, and international law /
Authors: Slaughter, Joseph R.
Publisher: Fordham University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Fiction History and criticism; Literature and society.; Bildungsromans History and criticism.; Human rights.
Contents: Novel subjects and enabling fictions: the formal articulation of international human rights law -- Becoming plots: human rights, the bildungsroman, and the novelization of citizenship -- Normalizing narrative forms of human rights: the (dys)function of the public sphere -- Compulsory development: narrative self-sponsorship and the right to self-determination -- Clefs à roman: reading, writing, and international humanitarianism.