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    Fictions of dignity : embodying human rights in world literature / Elizabeth S. Anker.

    By: Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell paperbacksPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016Edition: First printingDescription: ix, 262 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501705588; 150170558XSubject(s): Human rights in literature | Social justice in literature | Postcolonialism in literature | Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Human rights in literature | Literature, Modern | Postcolonialism in literature | Social justice in literature | 1900-1999Genre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc.DDC classification: 809/.933581 LOC classification: PN56.H79 | A55 2016
    Contents:
    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.
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    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.

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