The Routledge companion to literature and human rights /

The Routledge companion to literature and human rights /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2016. ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 528 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge companions Routledge companions.
Subject:	Human rights in literature. Social justice in literature. Law and literature. Literature and society. Literature -- History and criticism. Human rights in literature. Law and literature. Literature. Literature and society. Social justice in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12478267

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Varying Form of Title:	Companion to literature and human rights Literature and human rights
Other authors / contributors:	McClennen, Sophia A., editor. Moore, Alexandra Schultheis, editor.
ISBN:	9781317696285 131769628X 9781317696278 1317696271 9780415736411 0415736412 1317696271 1317696263 1315778378
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Parts cover: Subjects, with pieces on subjectivity, humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body; Forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the oral; Contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events; Impacts, considering the power and limits of human rights literature, rhetoric, and visual culture."--
Other form:	Print version: Routledge companion to literature and human rights. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016 9780415736411

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Summary:	The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: subjects, with pieces on subjectivity, humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the oral contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts, considering the power and limits of human rights literature, rhetoric, and visual culture Drawn from many different global contexts, the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in new directions for future scholarship. Contributors: Chris Abani, Jonathan E. Abel, Elizabeth S. Anker, Arturo Arias, Ariella Azoulay, Ralph Bauer, Anna Bernard, Brenda Carr Vellino, Eleni Coundouriotis, James Dawes, Erik Doxtader, Marc D. Falkoff, Keith P. Feldman, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Audrey J. Golden, Mark Goodale, Barbara Harlow, Wendy S. Hesford, Peter Hitchcock, David Holloway, Christine Hong, Madelaine Hron, Meg Jensen, Luz Angélica Kirschner, Susan Maslan, Julie Avril Minich, Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Greg Mullins, Laura T. Murphy, Hanna Musiol, Makau Mutua, Zoe Norridge, David Palumbo-Liu, Crystal Parikh, Katrina M. Powell, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Mark Sanders, Karen-Magrethe Simonsen, Joseph R. Slaughter, Sharon Sliwinski, Sidonie Smith, Domna Stanton, Sarah G. Waisvisz, Belinda Walzer, Ban Wang, Julia Watson, Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 528 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781317696285 131769628X 9781317696278 1317696271 9780415736411 0415736412 1317696263 1315778378