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.
- ISBN: 978-3-319-31850-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 132
- Fecha Publicación: 25/08/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés