Format:
Online-Ressource (448 p)
ISBN:
9780823228171
Content:
In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of world literatureand international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel of coming of age, fills out this image, offering a conceptual vocabulary, a humanist social vision, and a narrative grammar for what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and early literary theorists both call the free and full development of the human personality.
Content:
Intro -- contents -- acknowledgments -- The Legibility of Human Rights -- Novel Subjects and Enabling Fictions: The Formal Articulation of International Human Rights Law -- Becoming Plots: Human Rights, the Bildungsroman, and the Novelization of Citizenship -- Normalizing Narrative Forms of Human Rights: The (Dys)Function of the Public Sphere -- Compulsory Development: Narrative Self-Sponsorship and the Right to Self-Determination -- Clefs a Roman: Reading, Writing, and International Humanitarianism -- Intimations of a Human Rights International: ''The Rights of Man -- or, What Are We [Reading] For?'' -- notes -- bibliography -- index.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""contents""; ""acknowledgments""; ""The Legibility of Human Rights""; ""Novel Subjects and Enabling Fictions: The Formal Articulation of International Human Rights Law""; ""Becoming Plots: Human Rights, the Bildungsroman, and the Novelization of Citizenship""; ""Normalizing Narrative Forms of Human Rights: The (Dys)Function of the Public Sphere""; ""Compulsory Development: Narrative Self-Sponsorship and the Right to Self-Determination""; ""Clefs a Roman: Reading, Writing, and International Humanitarianism""; ""Intimations of a Human Rights International: ��The Rights of Man
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or, What Are We [Reading] For?��""""notes""; ""bibliography""; ""index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823228195
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823228171
Additional Edition:
Print version Human Rights, Inc : The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law
Language:
English
Keywords:
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