The Routledge Companion To Literature And Human Rights

CONTENTS

Sophia A. McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore

Part I
Subjects

1 A New Universal for Human Rights?: The Particular, the Generalizable, the Political

Domna C. Stanton

2 “Commonly Human”: Embodied Self-Possession and Human Rights in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother

Elizabeth S. Anker

3 Who Is Human?: Disability, Literature, and Human Rights

Julie Avril Minich

4 Queer Rights?

Greg A. Mullins

5 Gendering Human Rights and Their Violation: A Reading of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee

Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg

6 Contingent Vulnerabilities: Child Soldiers as Human Rights Subjects

Wendy S. Hesford

7 In Flight: The Refugee Experience and Human Rights Narrative

Eleni Coundouriotis

8 Immolation

Peter Hitchcock

9 Remembering Perpetrators: The Kunstlerroman and Second-Generation Witnessing in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker

Sarah G. Waisvisz

Part II
Forms

10 Vanishing Points: When Narrative Is Not Simply There

Joseph R. Slaughter

11 The Reemergence of the Slave Narrative Tradition and the Search for a New Frederick Douglass

Laura T. Murphy

12 Reading Human Rights Literatures through Oral Traditions

Katrina M. Powell

13 Beyond the Trauma Aesthetic: The Cultural Work of Human Rights Witness Poetries

Brenda Carr Vellino

14 Ending World War II: Visual Literacy Class in Human Rights

Ariella Azoulay

15 Inventing Human Dignity

Sharon Sliwinski

16 The Legible Face of Human Rights in Autobiographically Based Fiction

Meg Jensen

17 The World-Form of Human Rights Comics

Christine Hong

18 Sorry Business

Gillian Whitlock

19 From “Tutsi Crush” to “FWP”: Satire, Sentiment, and Rights in African Texts and Contexts

Madelaine Hron

20 #NotABugSplat: Becoming Human on the Terrain of Visual Culture

Keith P. Feldman

21 Fragmented Forms and Shifting Contexts: How Can Social Media Work for Human Rights?

David Palumbo-Liu

22 What about False Witnessing?: The Limits of Authenticity and Verification

Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson

Part III
Contexts

23 Nature and Society in Revolutionary Rights Debates

Susan Maslan

24 The “Rites of Discovery”: Law and Narrative in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic World

Ralph Bauer

25 Natural Rights and Power in the Spanish Comedia after the Conquest

Karen-Margrethe Simonsen

26 Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): An Essay in Bibliography

Barbara Harlow

27 Localizing Human Rights: Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India and the Lacuna in International Justice

Audrey J. Golden

28 Colonialism, Inherited Rights, and Social Movements of Self-Protection

Ban Wang

29 Transition and Transformation: Human Rights and Ubuntu in Antjie Krog’s Writings after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Mark Sanders

30 Violence, Indigeneities and Human Rights

Arturo Arias

31 Human Rights and Cultural Representations of Mexico-US Border Migration

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

32 Journeying into Rwanda: Placing Philip Gourevitch’s Account of Genocide within Literary, Postcolonial, and Human Rights Frameworks

Zoe Norridge

33 “Where is the world to save us from torture?”: The Poets of Guantánamo

Marc D. Falkoff

34 Human Rights and Minority Rights: Argentine and German Perspectives

Luz Angélica Kirschner

35 States of Cynicism: Literature and Human Rights in Israel/Palestine

Anna Bernard

36 Bringing Human Rights to Bear in American Literature

Crystal Parikh

37 Sites of Human Rights Theory

Hanna Musiol

Part IV
Impacts

38 With Double-Binds to Spare: Assuming the Rhetorical Question of Human Rights Language as Such

Erik Doxtader

39 “Inverted Sympathy”: Empathy and Mediation in Literary Transactions of Human Rights

Sarah Winter

40 Human Rights, Literature, and Empathy

James Dawes

41 The Right Time for Rhetoric: Normativity, Kairos, and Human Rights

Belinda Walzer

42 Values without Qualities: Pathos and Mythos in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Mark Goodale

43 Is the Age of Human Rights Over?

Makau Mutua

44 Freedom of Expression and Cultural Production in the Age of Vanishing Privacy

Jonathan E. Abel

45 Poetry and the Limits of Human Rights

David Holloway

46 Film After Atrocity: An Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer

Alexandra Schultheis Moore

47 The Graceful Walk

Chris Abani

Index