Fictions of Dignity : Embodying Human Rights in World Literature.

Fictions of Dignity -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructs by Which We Live -- 1. Bodily Integrity and its Exclusions -- 2. Embodying Human Rights: Toward a a Phenomenology of Social Justice -- 3. Constituting the Liberal Subject of Rights: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children -- 4. Women's Rights and the Lure of Self-Determination in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero -- 5. J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: The Rights of Desire and the Embodied Lives of Animals -- 6. Arundhati Roy's "Return to the Things Themselves": Phenomenology and the Challenge of Justice -- Coda: Small Places, Close to Home -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.