Fictions of dignity
Subtitle: embodying human rights in world literature
By: Elizabeth S. Anker
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780801451362
Subjects: Human rights in literature; Social justice in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Modern Literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : constructs by which we live; title: Bodily integrity and its exclusions; title: Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice; title: Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children; title: Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero; title: J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals; title: Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice; title: Coda : small places, close to home.