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Book SynopsisThis Companion is intended for an academic audience, ranging from advanced undergraduate students to professional scholars and from a variety of disciplines, who are interested in the new field of human rights and literature.
Table of ContentsChronology of major works and events, 1215–2018 Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama; Introduction Crystal Parikh; Part I. Genealogies and Contexts: 1. Recounting history, locating precursors for human rights Sarah Winter; 2. Humanitarianism's way in the world: on missionary and emergency imaginaries Kerry Bystrom and Eleni Coundouriotis; 3. Literature, human rights and the Cold War Andrew Hammond; 4. Human rights in the vernacular: translating and inventing rights outside the state David Palumbo-Liu; Part II. Fashioning Methods: 5. Law and literature, the procedural and the performative Audrey J. Golden; 6. Human rights modes and media Lieve Gies; 7. Remembering the forgetting: human rights literature and memory work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials; 8. Queering human rights: the transgender child Wendy S. Hesford and Rachel A. Lewis; Part III. Generic Representations: 9. Narrating the human person Sunny Xiang; 10. The dramas of human rights: documentary theater and performance Brenda S. Werth; 11. Poetic justice and the idea of poetic redress Rajeev S. Patke; 12. Truth-telling: reportage and creative nonfiction James Dawes; 13. Visualizing the world: graphic novels, comics, and human rights Charlotte Salmi; Part IV. Writing Human Rights: 14. Perpetrators, victims, and beneficiaries: the subjects of human rights Elizabeth Swanson; 15. Routing emotions, forming humans: affect, aesthetics, rhetoric Greg A. Mullins; 16. Beyond sovereignty: reimagining vulnerability and security Alexandra S. Moore; Bibliography Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama.
