Anker, Elizabeth S. 1973-
Fictions of dignity : embodying human rights in world literature / Elizabeth S. Anker. - First printing. - ix, 262 pages ; 24 cm - Cornell paperbacks .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) 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.
9781501705588 150170558X
1900-1999
Human rights in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Human rights in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN56.H79 / A55 2016
809/.933581
Fictions of dignity : embodying human rights in world literature / Elizabeth S. Anker. - First printing. - ix, 262 pages ; 24 cm - Cornell paperbacks .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) 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.
9781501705588 150170558X
1900-1999
Human rights in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Human rights in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN56.H79 / A55 2016
809/.933581