The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature

doi:10.1017/9781108698511

Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently generated innovative and timely perspectives on the history, meaning, and scope of human rights. The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature introduces this new and exciting field of study in the humanities. It explores the historical and institutional contexts, theoretical concepts, genres, and methods that literature and human rights share. Equally accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researches, this Companion emphasizes both the literary and interdisciplinary dimensions of human rights and the humanities.

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The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
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The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature - Title page
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Epigraph
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Contents
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Notes on Contributors
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Chronology of Major Works and Events, 1215–2018
pp xiii-xxi
- By Saronik Bosu, Heba Jahama
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Introduction
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- By Crystal Parikh
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Part I - Genealogies and Contexts
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1 - Recounting History, Locating Precursors for Human Rights
pp 13-26
- By Sarah Winter
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2 - Humanitarianism’s Way in the World
pp 27-41
On Missionary and Emergency Imaginaries
- By Kerry Bystrom, Eleni Coundouriotis
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3 - Literature, Human Rights, and the Cold War
pp 42-57
- By Andrew Hammond
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4 - Human Rights in the Vernacular
pp 58-72
Translating and Inventing Rights Outside the State
- By David Palumbo-Liu
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Part II - Fashioning Methods
pp 73-126
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5 - Law and Literature, the Procedural and the Performative
pp 75-87
- By Audrey J. Golden
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6 - Human Rights Modes and Media
pp 88-99
- By Lieve Gies
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7 - Remembering the Forgetting
pp 100-113
Human Rights Literature and Memory Work
- By Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
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8 - Queering Human Rights
pp 114-126
The Transgender Child
- By Wendy S. Hesford, Rachel A. Lewis
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Part III - Generic Representations
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9 - Narrating the Human Person
pp 129-140
- By Sunny Xiang
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10 - The Dramas of Human Rights
pp 141-153
Documentary Theater and Performance
- By Brenda G. Werth
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11 - Poetic Justice and the Idea of Poetic Redress
pp 154-166
- By Rajeev S. Patke
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12 - Truth-Telling
pp 167-177
Reportage and Creative Nonfiction
- By James Dawes
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13 - Visualizing the World
pp 178-190
Graphic Novels, Comics, and Human Rights
- By Charlotta Salmi
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Part IV - Writing Human Rights
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14 - Perpetrators, Victims, and Beneficiaries
pp 193-205
The Subjects of Human Rights
- By Elizabeth Swanson
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15 - Routing Emotions, Forming Humans
pp 206-216
Affect, Aesthetics, Rhetoric
- By Greg A. Mullins
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16 - Beyond Sovereignty
pp 217-232
Reimagining Vulnerability and Security
- By Alexandra S. Moore
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Select Bibliography
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Index
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