Fictions of dignity [electronic resource] : embodying human rights in world literature / Elizabeth S. Anker.

By: Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Description: ix, 262 pISBN: 9780801465635 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Human rights in literature | Social justice in literature | Postcolonialism in literature | Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809/.933581 LOC classification: PN56.H79 | A55 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals -- Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice -- Coda : small places, close to home.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals -- Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice -- Coda : small places, close to home.

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