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Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights

Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0198814054
ISBN13: 9780198814054
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 30 2021
Pages: 164
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times.

The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and human rights? In this short polemical book, Lyndsey Stonebridge shows how the history of human rights owes much to the creative imagining of writers. Yet, she argues, it is not enough to claim that literature is the empathetic wing of the human rights movement. At a time when human rights are so blatantly under attack, the writers we need how are the political truthtellers, the bold callers out of easy sympathy and comfortable platitudes.

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