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This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.
List of contents
Chronology of major works and events, 1215-2018 Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama; Introduction Crystal Parikh; Part I. Genealogies and Contexts: 1. Recounting history, locating precursors for human rights Sarah Winter; 2. Humanitarianism's way in the world: on missionary and emergency imaginaries Kerry Bystrom and Eleni Coundouriotis; 3. Literature, human rights and the Cold War Andrew Hammond; 4. Human rights in the vernacular: translating and inventing rights outside the state David Palumbo-Liu; Part II. Fashioning Methods: 5. Law and literature, the procedural and the performative Audrey J. Golden; 6. Human rights modes and media Lieve Gies; 7. Remembering the forgetting: human rights literature and memory work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials; 8. Queering human rights: the transgender child Wendy S. Hesford and Rachel A. Lewis; Part III. Generic Representations: 9. Narrating the human person Sunny Xiang; 10. The dramas of human rights: documentary theater and performance Brenda S. Werth; 11. Poetic justice and the idea of poetic redress Rajeev S. Patke; 12. Truth-telling: reportage and creative nonfiction James Dawes; 13. Visualizing the world: graphic novels, comics, and human rights Charlotte Salmi; Part IV. Writing Human Rights: 14. Perpetrators, victims, and beneficiaries: the subjects of human rights Elizabeth Swanson; 15. Routing emotions, forming humans: affect, aesthetics, rhetoric Greg A. Mullins; 16. Beyond sovereignty: reimagining vulnerability and security Alexandra S. Moore; Bibliography Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama.
About the author
Crystal Parikh is Professor at New York University in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of English, and Director of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. She is the author of Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color (2017) and An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent US Literature and Culture (2009), which won the Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary Studies. She co-edited with Daniel Y. Kim, The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (Cambridge, 2015).
Summary
This Companion is intended for an academic audience, ranging from advanced undergraduate students to professional scholars and from a variety of disciplines, who are interested in the new field of human rights and literature.
