Fictions of dignity : embodying human rights in world literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Human rights in literature. Social justice in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.