Human Rights and Literature Writing Rights
Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations. Examining violat
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Pramod K.Nayar
Human Rights and Literature
Pramod K. Nayar
Human Rights and Literature Writing Rights
Pramod K. Nayar University of Hyderabad Hyderabad, India
ISBN 978-1-137-50431-9 ISBN 978-1-137-50432-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-50432-6
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PREFACE
The turn to literary texts and discourses in this book is one that has been, in some sense, in the offing for some years now, with concerns over the aesthetic, narrative and representational strategies appropriate to the task of documenting Human Rights violations occupying centre stage in numerous essays and my earlier book, Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India (2012). Political commentaries and legal discourses do not provide, in my view, the adequately robust scaffolding to construct the subject, the person, of human rights. Literature which, as Geoffrey Harpham reminded us years ago, has always been concerned with the Other, offers a key route into the very idea of the human and insights into those excluded from this idea. It is this view of the literary that produced Human Rights and Literature Writing Rights. Hyderabad, India
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book, which took me into literary texts remarkable for their representations of human courage and human brutality and of suffering and silences, would not have been possible but for the support system I inhabit. The ‘thank yous’ expressed here are woefully minimal for what the members of this system do. Rachel Krause of Palgrave Macmillan tracked me down and invited me to submit a proposal—
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