McClennen Sophia A. - The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map of this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings of key topics. The first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Parts cover:

subjects, with pieces on subjectivity, humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body

forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the oral

contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events

impacts, considering the power and limits of human rights literature, rhetoric, and visual culture

Drawn from many different global contexts, the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in new directions for future scholarship.

Contributors: Chris Abani, Jonathan E. Abel, Elizabeth S. Anker, Arturo Arias, Ariella Azoulay, Ralph Bauer, Anna Bernard, Brenda Carr Vellino, Eleni Coundouriotis, James Dawes, Erik Doxtader, Marc D. Falkoff, Keith P. Feldman, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Audrey J. Golden, Mark Goodale, Barbara Harlow, Wendy S. Hesford, Peter Hitchcock, David Holloway, Christine Hong, Madelaine Hron, Meg Jensen, Luz Anglica Kirschner, Susan Maslan, Julie Avril Minich, Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Greg Mullins, Laura T. Murphy, Hanna Musiol, Makau Mutua, Zoe Norridge, David Palumbo-Liu, Crystal Parikh, Katrina M. Powell, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Mark Sanders, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Joseph R. Slaughter, Sharon Sliwinski, Sidonie Smith, Domna C. Stanton, Sarah G. Waisvisz, Belinda Walzer, Ban Wang, Julia Watson, Gillian Whitlock, and Sarah Winter.

Sophia A. McClennen is Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature (affiliated with Spanish and Womens Studies) at Pennsylvania State University, USA and Director of the Center for Global Studies.

Alexandra Schultheis Moore is Associate Professor of English and Program Faculty in Womens and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Edited by
Sophia A. McClennen and
Alexandra Schultheis Moore

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The Routledge companion to literature and human rights / edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. -- First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Human rights in literature. 2. Social justice in literature. 3. Law and literature. 4. Literature and society. 5. Literature--History and criticism. I. McClennen, Sophia A., author, editor. II. Moore, Alexandra Schultheis, author, editor. III. Title: Companion to literature and human rights. IV. Title: Literature and human rights.

PN56.H79R68 2015

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ISBN: 978-0-415-73641-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-77837-2 (ebk)

For Chlo, Isabel, Samantha, and Sebastian

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Chris Abani is the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. He is the author of seven poetry collections and six novels as well as essays, short stories, and screenplays. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Lannen Literary Fellowship, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, a PEN Hemingway Book Prize, and a Guggenheim Award.

Jonathan E. Abel is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. His book Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan (2012) won the Weatherhead Asia Institute at Columbia Universitys first book prize. His current project considers the mass marketing of reverse mimesis when new media are said to transform the world.

Elizabeth S. Anker is Associate Professor in the English Department at Cornell University. Anker is author of Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature (2012), as well as essays on topics including sovereignty, animal rights, democracy, and constitutionalism. She is currently writing a book about the aesthetic forms that have enabled the globalization of the constitution.

Arturo Arias is Tomas Rivera Regents Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America (2007), The Rigoberta Mench Controversy (2000), The Identity of the Word (1998), and Ceremonial Gestures (1998), as well as a critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturiass Mulata (2000). In 2008 he received the Miguel Angel Asturias National Award for Lifetime Achievement from his native Guatemala.

Ariella Azoulay is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture, Media, and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Among her recent books are Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (2012), From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation 19471950 (2011), and The Civil Contract of Photography (2008).

Ralph Bauer is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (2003, 2008),