The Modes of Human Rights Literature

Towards a Culture without Borders
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-31850-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 2989 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galchinsky, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- The Dream of a Culture without Borders .- Lament as Transitional Justice.- Laughter and the Subjected Subject.-  Towards a Global Civil Culture.- Works Cited.

Über Autor(innen)

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.