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Klappentext A sourcebook of inventive approaches and best practices for teachers looking to make human rights the focus of their undergraduate and graduate courses. Contributors first explore what it means to be human and conceptual issues such as law and the state. Next! they approach human rights and related social-justice issues from the perspectives of particular geographic regions and historical eras! through the lens of genre! and in relation to specific rights violations. Zusammenfassung "The time for human rights and literature has clearly come. In this field! Goldberg and Moore are among the most qualified to edit a volume for the MLA Options for Teaching series. The collection will help to expand thinking - and questions - about these interdisciplinary studies." - Domna Stanton! Graduate Center! City University of New York.
About the author
Alexandra Schultheis Moore is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the author of
Regenerative Fiction: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family and editor, with Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, of
Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature and, with Goldberg and Greg Mullins, of a special issue of
College Literature on human rights and cultural forms. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg is professor of English at Babson College. Author of
Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights, she edited
Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and a special issue of
Peace Review on the film and literature of human rights. Her many articles on human rights, gender studies, and literature can be found in edited volumes and in journals such as
Callaloo,
Humanity, and
South Atlantic Review.
