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Aesthetics, Representation, and Human Rights: The Ethics of Becoming

Aesthetics, Representation, and Human Rights: The Ethics of Becoming

Werth, Brenda
Strandberg, Lotta

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights

Literary CriticismCriminologyGeneral Law

PREORDER - Expected ship date April 12, 2027

ISBN10: 3032414520
ISBN13: 9783032414526
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 12 2027
Language: English
In this open access book, contributors explore new and alternative ways of belonging in the world through critical examination of the arts, human rights, and the ethics of representation. This book argues that paradigms of becoming, self-translation, and transformation are important for understanding the shifts in the (self) representation of human rights subjects. These paradigms provide a crucial alternative to the enduring discourses of exposure, revelation, and retribution in human rights literature, which, though important, have limited the primary impulses of human rights to revealing and remembering atrocity. Chapters cover a range of genres and art forms, including novels, films, theatre, video art, site-specific memorials and monuments, and media campaigns. Concerned throughout with the relationship between aesthetics, ethics, and politics, contributors analyse works spanning a broad geographical range by authors and artists from Mexico, Chile, South Africa, Korea, Finland, Canada, Syria, Egypt, Germany, Sri Lanka, Congo, Nigeria, Tanzania, Northern Ireland, the US and the UK.

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