The Modes of Human Rights Literature: Towards a Culture Without Borders - Couverture rigide

Galchinsky, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3319318500 ISBN 13 : 9783319318509

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Synopsis

This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility--a culture without borders. Michael Galchinsky maintains that, no matter how many treaties there are, a rights-respecting world will not truly exist until people everywhere can imagine it. The Modes of Human Rights Literature describes four major forms of human rights literature: protest, testimony, lament, and laughter to reveal how such works give common symbolic forms to widely held sociopolitical emotions.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Galchinsky is Professor of English, an affiliate of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy at Georgia State University, and a Fellow at the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology, USA. He writes on human rights literature, international human rights law, and Jewish studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319318500
• ISBN 13: 9783319318509
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 145
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