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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Aporia and Affirmative Critique: Mapping the Landscape of Literary Approaches to Human Rights Research
Part I: Subjects
1. A New Universal for Human Rights?: The Particular, the Generalizable, the Political
2. “Commonly Human”: Embodied Self-Possession and Human Rights in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother
3. Who Is Human?: Disability, Literature, and Human Rights
4. Queer Rights?
5. Gendering Human Rights and Their Violation: A Reading of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee
6. Contingent Vulnerabilities: Child Soldiers as Human Rights Subjects
7. In Flight: The Refugee Experience and Human Rights Narrative
8. Immolation
9. Remembering Perpetrators: The Kunstlerroman and Second-Generation Witnessing in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker
Part II: Forms
10. Vanishing Points: When Narrative Is Not Simply There
11. The Reemergence of the Slave Narrative Tradition and the Search for a New Frederick Douglass
12. Reading Human Rights Literatures through Oral Traditions
13. Beyond the Trauma Aesthetic: The Cultural Work of Human Rights Witness Poetries
14. Ending World War II: Visual Literacy Class in Human Rights
15. Inventing Human Dignity
16. The Legible Face of Human Rights in Autobiographically Based Fiction
17. The World-Form of Human Rights Comics
18. Sorry Business
19. From “Tutsi Crush” to “FWP”: Satire, Sentiment, and Rights in African Texts and Contexts
20. #NotABugSplat: Becoming Human on the Terrain of Visual Culture
21. Fragmented Forms and Shifting Contexts: How Can Social Media Work for Human Rights?
22. What about False Witnessing?: The Limits of Authenticity and Verification
Part III: Contexts
23. Nature and Society in Revolutionary Rights Debates
24. The “Rites of Discovery”: Law and Narrative in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic World
25. Natural Rights and Power in the Spanish Comedia after the Conquest
26. Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): An Essay in Bibliography
27. Localizing Human Rights: Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India and the Lacuna in International Justice
28. Colonialism, Inherited Rights, and Social Movements of Self-Protection
29. Transition and Transformation: Human Rights and Ubuntu in Antjie Krog’s Writings after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
30. Violence, Indigeneities and Human Rights
31. Human Rights and Cultural Representations of Mexico-US Border Migration
32. Journeying into Rwanda: Placing Philip Gourevitch’s Account of Genocide within Literary, Postcolonial, and Human Rights Frameworks
33. “Where is the world to save us from torture?”: The Poets of Guantánamo
34. Human Rights and Minority Rights: Argentine and German Perspectives
35. States of Cynicism: Literature and Human Rights in Israel/Palestine
36. Bringing Human Rights to Bear in American Literature
37. Sites of Human Rights Theory
Part IV: Impacts
38. With Double-Binds to Spare: Assuming the Rhetorical Question of Human Rights Language as Such
39. “Inverted Sympathy”: Empathy and Mediation in Literary Transactions of Human Rights
40. Human Rights, Literature, and Empathy
41. The Right Time for Rhetoric: Normativity, Kairos, and Human Rights
42. Values without Qualities: Pathos and Mythos in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
43. Is the Age of Human Rights Over?
44. Freedom of Expression and Cultural Production in the Age of Vanishing Privacy
45. Poetry and the Limits of Human Rights
46. Film After Atrocity: An Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer
47. The Graceful Walk
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