TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anker,Elizabeth S.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Fictions of dignity: embodying human rights in world literature 
AV  - PN56.H79 A55 2012eb
U1  - 809/.933581 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Human rights in literature
KW  - Social justice in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10629486
ER  -