Teaching human rights in literary and cultural studies / edited by Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg.
2015
KF277.L38 T427 2015 (Map It)
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Title
Teaching human rights in literary and cultural studies / edited by Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg.
Published
New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2015.
Call Number
KF277.L38 T427 2015
ISBN
9781603292153 (hardback)
1603292152 (hardback)
9781603292160 (paper)
1603292160 (paper)
9781603292177 (epub)
9781603292184 (Kindle)
1603292152 (hardback)
9781603292160 (paper)
1603292160 (paper)
9781603292177 (epub)
9781603292184 (Kindle)
Description
xii, 362 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)892699987
Summary
"Offers pedagogical techniques and syllabus suggestions for incorporating human rights issues into the college classroom. Includes information on legal imperialism; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; testimonio; gender; feminism; female genital mutilation; remembrance; social justice; torture; postcolonialism; loss; trauma; economic rights; law; sexuality; the other; racism; cultural encounters; composition; prisons"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-355) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Marjorie Agosin
xi
Introduction: Charting New Courses: Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
1
pt. I
Issues and Definitions
Introduction
13
Losses of Human Rights in the Literature Classroom / Greg A. Mullins
15
Human Rights and the Tautology of Human Being / Nicholas Matlin
27
Teaching the Legal Imperialism Debate over Human Rights / Elizabeth S. Anker
39
Human Rights Cultures and Traditions: Beyond the Post-/Colonial and the West / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
53
pt. II
Historical and Geographic Orientations
Introduction
67
On the History of Human Rights before 1948 / Sarah Winter
70
Mapping African American Literature and Human Rights / Ira Dworkin
86
Representing China and Asia: Translating Outside in the Rights Machine / Manav Ratti
96
Between Official Stories and Coerced Confessions: Testimonio and Storytelling in Latin America / Sophia A. McClennen
108
Revisiting The Visitor. Rhetoric, Ethics, and Feminist Models of Interpretation / Eve Wiederhold
123
pt. III
Bearing Wrongs, Reading Rights, Engendering Responsibility
Introduction
139
Linking Economic Justice and Women's Human Rights: Feminist Approaches for the Human Rights Literature Classroom / Heather Hewett
143
Engaging the Literature and Film of Female Genital Mutilation in the Undergraduate Classroom / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
157
Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: Walking with Shadows in Nigeria / Neville Hoad
168
On Teaching the Close Reading of Torture Literature: An Approximation / Karen Elizabeth Bishop
178
Cultivating the Translocal Citizen Witness: Contemporary Human Rights Poetry as "Remembrance/Pedagogy" / Brenda Carr Vellino
189
Reconstituting Community, Identity, and Belonging: Classroom Encounters with Postconflict Texts / Susan Spearey
200
pt. IV
Classroom Contexts
Introduction
215
Empirical Ethics, Theoretical Mechanics: Toward a Prosaics of Teaching Human Rights Literature / Kimberly A. Nance
218
Locating Difference: Addressing Student Expectations in the Human Rights and Literature Classroom / Alexander Hartwiger
227
Rhetorical Approaches to Teaching Human Rights: The Pedagogy of Speak Truth to Power / Belinda Walzer
236
Cultivating the Dialogic Subject of Human Rights Pedagogy / Wendy S. Hesford
247
Teaching Human Rights in the Composition Classroom: Engaging Students through Common Curricula / Bridget Irish
263
Reading Culture and Writing Rights / Ben Alberti
273
Experiencing Form: Service Learning in the Literature of Human Rights Classroom / Marike Janzen
284
Rickety Bridge: Prisoners and Human Rights in the Literature Classroom / Megan Sweeney
294
pt. V
Resources
Resources / Belinda Walzer
307
Afterword: Human Rights Formalism / James Dawes
321
Notes on Contributors
327
Works Cited
333
Index
357