TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anker,Elizabeth S.
TI  - Fictions of dignity: embodying human rights in world literature 
T2  - Cornell paperbacks
SN  - 9781501705588
AV  - PN56.H79 A55 2016
U1  - 809/.933581 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Human rights in literature
KW  - Social justice in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
ER  -