Fictions of dignity: embodying human rights in world literature
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Main Author: Anker, Elizabeth S., (Elizabeth Susan) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2013
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:080146563X
9780801465635

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