Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature /
Anker, Elizabeth S. 1973-
Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature / Elizabeth S. Anker. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9780801465635
Human rights in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Postcolonialism in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Ebooks.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .F538 2013
Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature / Elizabeth S. Anker. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9780801465635
Human rights in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Postcolonialism in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Ebooks.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .F538 2013