Literature and human rights : the law, the language and the limitations of human rights discourse /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter De Gruyter,
[2015]
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| Series: | Law & literature (De Gruyter) ;
v. 9. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Literature and human rights : interdisciplinary reflections on the law, the language and the limitations of human rights discourse
- Empathy, literature and human rights : the case of Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper / Helle Porsdam
- Privacy, blighted lives, and a blindspot in British law / Richard Mullender
- A squeamishness about existing : Fernando Pessoa's quiet rejection of the human in The Book of Disquiet / Maria Aristodemou
- I and Another : rethinking the subject of human rights with Dostoyevsky, Bakhtin and Simondon / Riccardo Baldissone
- Dehumanizing the enemy : how to avoid human rights / Daniela Carpi
- Am I not a man and a brother? Notes on the representation of slavery in eighteenth century English art and literature / Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman
- Mental illness and human rights in Patrick McGrath's Asylum / Charia Battisti
- The role of forensics in human rights discourse : Kathy Reich's crime fiction and the rights of the dead / Sidia Fiorato
- Rumpole and the rights of accused terrorists / Roxanne Barbara Doerr
- Reality, theatre and human rights / Carla Dente
- The rights and wrongs of marriage : Article 16.2 UDHR and the case of Edith Dombey / Ian Ward
- Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters and the cause of female literacy in India / Paola Carbone
- The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta by Montagu Slater : oral tradition and fundamental rights in the trial / Lisa Lanzoni
- 'n Droë Wit Seisoen in die Stormkaap : André Brink and the fundamental rights of the Afrikaners in Apartheid South Africa / Matteo Nicolini
- The definition of "linguistic minority" : linguistic versus legal perspectives / Alessandra Tomaselli and Lino Panzeri
- Rights of humans/rights of nature : the language of environmental rights in UN documents / Valentina Adami
- On crimes, punishments, and words : legal and language issues in Cesare Beccaria's works / Mara Logaldo
- Dignity and disgrace in law and literature / Jeanne Gaakeer.