Anker, Elizabeth S. 1973-
Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth S. Anker. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012. - ix, 262 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals -- Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice -- Coda : small places, close to home.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Human rights in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PN56.H79 / A55 2012eb
809/.933581
Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth S. Anker. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012. - ix, 262 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals -- Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice -- Coda : small places, close to home.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Human rights in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PN56.H79 / A55 2012eb
809/.933581