The modes of human rights literature : towards a culture without borders /
This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility -- a culture without borders. Michael Galchinsky maintains that, no matter how many treaties there are, a rights...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Series: | Palgrave pivot.
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| Summary: | This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility -- a culture without borders. Michael Galchinsky maintains that, no matter how many treaties there are, a rights-respecting world will not truly exist until people everywhere can imagine it. The Modes of Human Rights Literature describes four major forms of human rights literature: protest, testimony, lament, and laughter to reveal how such works give common symbolic forms to widely held sociopolitical emotions. -- back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 132 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references (pages 113-123) and index. |
| ISBN: | 3319318500 9783319318509 |