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The Modes of Human Rights Literature: Towards a Culture Without Borders

The Modes of Human Rights Literature: Towards a Culture Without Borders

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3319318500
ISBN13: 9783319318509
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 25 2016
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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