Anker, Elizabeth S.  1973- <br/><br/>
Fictions of dignity :  embodying human rights in world literature / 
Elizabeth S. Anker. 
 - First printing. 
 - ix, 262 pages ;  24 cm 
 - Cornell paperbacks .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501705588 150170558X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human rights in literature.<br/>Social justice in literature.<br/>Postcolonialism in literature.<br/>Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Human rights in literature.<br/>Literature, Modern.<br/>Postcolonialism in literature.<br/>Social justice in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56.H79  / A55 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.933581