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Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture

Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138860271
ISBN13: 9781138860278
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 16 2015
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book responds to the failures of human rights through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can expose human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Drawing on vulnerability theory, Moore develops a transnational feminist praxis for reading human rights and their violations in contemporary literary and visual culture in five (post-)colonial and transnational contexts. Moore demonstrates that the twinned discourses of precarity and security may open up readings of human rights claims that are, at once, embodied and shareable, and at the same time are themselves vulnerable to cooptation.

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