Human Rights, Inc. : The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law.
Title:
Human Rights, Inc. : The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law.
Author:
Slaughter, Joseph R.
ISBN:
9780823228195
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (448 pages)
Contents:
contents -- acknowledgments -- The Legibility of Human Rights -- 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 a Roman: Reading, Writing, and International Humanitarianism -- Intimations of a Human Rights International: ''The Rights of Man -- or, What Are We [Reading] For?'' -- notes -- bibliography -- index.
Abstract:
In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of world literatureand international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel of coming of age, fills out this image, offering a conceptual vocabulary, a humanist social vision, and a narrative grammar for what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and early literary theorists both call the free and full development of the human personality.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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