Alexandra S. Moore - Writing Beyond the State : Post-Sovereign Approaches to Human Rights in Literary Studies

This series demonstrates how cultural critique can inform understandings of human rights as normative instruments that may at once express forms of human flourishing and be complicit with violence and inequality. The series investigates the role of genre and the aesthetic in shaping cultures of both rights and harm. Essential to this work is an understanding of human rights as at once normative and dynamic, encompassing egregious violations as well as forms of immiseration that have not always registered in human rights terms.

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Cover image: Jason deCaires Taylor, Young Charles sculpture at entrance to the Coralarium in Maldives

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We are grateful for permission to reprint the images in this collection as follows.

Our cover photograph from Jason deCaires Taylors The Sculpture Coralarium, Sirru Fen Fushi, Maldives, appears with the generous permission of the artist. We thank Georgetown University for supporting the use of this image.

In Chapter, Theophilus Marboahs image from Echoes and Agreements is comprised of Plan of the Slave Ship Brookes, from Thomas Clarksons The history of the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave trade by the British Parliament (1808), used courtesy of the British Library Board, and Massimo Sestinis photograph of the migrant boat crossing, reprinted by permission (Massimo Sestini). We thank Mr. Marboah for recreating the diptych from his Echoes and Agreements series for this volume.

Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) has generously granted permission for the use of and quotations from its archives, material which appears in Chapter.

Chapterincludes a still from the VR film,Clouds Over Sidra, reprinted with permission of the director, Chris Milk. Were grateful to Richard Mosse and the Jack Shainman Gallery for permission to reprint Mosses image:Moria in Snow, Lesbos, Greece, 2017, Digital C on metallic paper, 35.5" 120", fromThe Castleby Richard Mosse, published by Mack Books in 2018.

Chapterfeatures three photographs from the Humans of New York blog by Brandon Stanton and are reprinted with his permission.

The map of voluntary departure survivors routes from Israel, discussed in Chapter, appears curtesy of authors Lior Birger, Shahar Shoham, and Liat Bolzman of the 2018 Report, Better a Prison in Israel Than Dying Along the Way: Testimonies of Refugees Who Voluntarily Departed Israel to Rwanda and Uganda and Gained Protection in Europe, translated by Elizabeth Tsurkov and published by the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants.

We thank the author and artist Tings Chak for permission to reprint two of her images in Chapter.

Finally, we thank Ben Doyle and Camille Davies for their support for this project from its inception.