Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Literature and Human Rights

The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse

Edited by: Ian Ward

Volume 9 in the series Law & Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368550

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About this book

The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Literature and Human Rights are written as a contribution to this vital debate. Each moreover is written in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, reaching across the myriad constitutive disciplines of law, literature and the humanities in order to present an array of alternative perspectives on the nature and meaning of human rights in the modern world. The taking of human rights seriously, it will be suggested, depends just as much on taking seriously the idea of the human as it does the idea of rights.

Author / Editor information

Ian Ward, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Literature and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Empathy, Literature and Human Rights: The Case of Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper Helle Porsdam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Privacy, Blighted Lives, and a Blindspot in British Law Richard Mullender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
A Squeamishness about Existing: Fernando Pessoa’s Quiet Rejection of the Human in The Book of Disquiet Maria Aristodemou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
I and Another: Rethinking the Subject of Human Rights with Dostoyevsky, Bakhtin and Simondon Riccardo Baldissone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Dehumanizing the Enemy: How to Avoid Human Rights Daniela Carpi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Publicly Available Download PDF	113
Mental Illness and Human Rights in Patrick McGrath’s Asylum Chiara Battisti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
The Role of Forensics in Human Rights Discourse: Kathy Reichs’s Crime Fiction and the Rights of the Dead Sidia Fiorato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Rumpole and the Rights of Accused Terrorists Roxanne Barbara Doerr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Reality, Theatre and Human Rights Carla Dente Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
The Rights and Wrongs of Marriage: Article 16.2 UDHR and the Case of Edith Dombey Ian Ward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters and the Cause of Female Literacy in India Paola Carbone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta, by Montagu Slater: Oral Tradition and Fundamental Rights in the Trial Lisa Lanzoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
‘n Droë Wit Seisoen in die Stormkaap: André Brink and the Fundamental Rights of the Afrikaners in Apartheid South Africa Matteo Nicolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
The Definition of “Linguistic Minority” Linguistic versus Legal Perspectives Alessandra Tomaselli and Lino Panzeri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Rights of Humans/Rights of Nature: The Language of Environmental Rights in UN Documents Valentina Adami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
On Crimes, Punishments, and Words: Legal and Language Issues in Cesare Beccaria’s Works Mara Logaldo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Dignity and Disgrace in Law and Literature Jeanne Gaakeer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Law, literature
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Coloured Illustrations: 8
- Tables: 4
Keywords: Literature; human rights; law; language.

eBook

Published: March 10, 2015
ISBN: 9783110368550

Hardcover

Published: January 29, 2015
ISBN: 9783110374100

Paperback

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110553024