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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Galchinsky, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Series:Palgrave pivot.
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Table of Contents:
  • The dream of a culture without borders
  • Lament as transitional justice
  • Laughter and the subjected subject
  • Towards a global civil culture.