The Modes of Human Rights Literature

Towards a Culture without Borders

Autor*innen

• Michael Galchinsky

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• 148 Seiten
• 6 Lesestunden

• Kunst & Kultur
• Sozialwissenschaften
• Über Literatur

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Einband: Paperback