Literature and human rights : the law, the language and the limitations of human rights discourse / Edited by Ian Ward.
2015
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Title
Literature and human rights : the law, the language and the limitations of human rights discourse / Edited by Ian Ward.
Published
Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Call Number
PN56.H79 L58 2015
ISBN
9783110374100 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
3110374102 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9783110368550 (ePDF)
9783110392630 (EPUB)
3110374102 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9783110368550 (ePDF)
9783110392630 (EPUB)
Description
vi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)897487958
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction Literature and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse
1
Empathy, Literature and Human Rights: The Case of Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper / Helle Porsdam
9
Privacy, Blighted Lives, and a Blindspot in British Law / Richard Mullender
27
A Squeamishness about Existing: Fernando Pessoa's Quiet Rejection of the Human in The Book of Disquiet / Maria Aristodemou
67
I and Another: Rethinking the Subject of Human Rights with Dostoyevsky, Bakhtin and Simondon / Riccardo Baldissone
83
Dehumanizing the Enemy: How to Avoid Human Rights / Daniela Carpi
101
Am I not a man and a brother? Notes on the Representation of Slavery in Eighteenth Century English Art and Literature / Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman
113
Mental Illness and Human Rights in Patrick McGrath's Asylum / Charia Battisti
133
The Role of Forensics in Human Rights Discourse: Kathy Reich's Crime Fiction and the Rights of the Dead / Sidia Fiorato
155
Rumpole and the Rights of Accused Terrorists / Roxanne Barbara Doerr
171
Reality, Theatre and Human Rights / Carla Dente
185
The Rights and Wrongs of Marriage: Article 16.2 UDHR and the Case of Edith Dombey / Ian Ward
195
Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters and the Cause of Female Literacy in India / Paola Carbone
205
The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta, by Montagu Slater: Oral Tradition and Fundamental Rights in the Trial / Lisa Lanzoni
229
`n Droe Wit Seisoen in die Stormkaap: Andre Brink and the Fundamental Rights of the Afrikaners in Apartheid South Africa / Matteo Nicolini
235
The Definition of "Linguistic Minority" Linguistic versus Legal Perspectives / Lino Panzeri
255
Rights of Humans/Rights of Nature: The Language of Environmental Rights in UN Documents / Valentina Adami
271
On Crimes, Punishments, and Words: Legal and Language Issues in Cesare Beccaria's Works / Mara Logaldo
289
Dignity and Disgrace in Law and Literature / Jeanne Gaakeer
309
Contributors
329
Index
333