{"product_id":"fictions-of-dignity-embodying-human-rights-in-world-literature-paperback-softback-9781501705588","title":"Fictions of Dignity; Embodying Human Rights in World Literature (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501705588","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFictions of Dignity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEmbodying Human Rights in World Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth S. Anker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501705588\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 January 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 1.6 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFictions of Dignity\u003c\/i\u003e is a distinctive contribution to the growing body of scholarship concerned with the relationship between human rights and novels.\u003c\/p\u003e - Emily Hogg (New Formations) \u003cp\u003eIn her analysis of 'the vocabulary of human rights,' Anker... interrogates the liberal\/Enlightenment tradition that values the intellect over the body. She regards this preference, one that stretches from Plato to Descartes, as dismissive of corporeal and indigenous factors. Hence, imperialism emphasizes the 'barbarism' of the global south, patriarchy stresses the weakness of women's bodies to justify their suppression, society categorizes animals as unconscious 'carnal being[s],' and large political bodies ignore smaller interests in implementing justice. Anker discusses four works that engage these stances.... [Readers] will be intrigued and challenged by Anker's critique. \u003cb\u003eSumming Up:\u003c\/b\u003e Highly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eThe passion and commitment Anker shows in taking liberalism to task for its complicity in perpetrating the very atrocities its own human rights programmes seek to end is a vital one.\u003c\/p\u003e (Interventions: Intl Jrnl of Postcol. Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOver the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory.\u003c\/b\u003e Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. In \u003ci\u003eFictions of Dignity\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that helps to explain many of the contemporary and historical failures of human rights, revealing why and how lives are excluded from human rights protections along the lines of race, gender, class, disability, and species membership. In the process, Anker examines the vital work performed by a particular kind of narrative imagination in fostering respect for human rights. Drawing on phenomenology, Anker suggests how an embodied politics of reading might restore a vital fleshiness to the overly abstract, decorporealized subject of liberal rights. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach of the novels Anker examines approaches human rights in terms of limits and paradoxes. Rushdie's \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the obstacles to incorporating rights into a formerly colonized nation's legal culture. El Saadawi's \u003ci\u003eWoman at Point Zero\u003c\/i\u003e takes up controversies over women's freedoms in Islamic society. In \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e, J. M. Coetzee considers the disappointments of post-apartheid reconciliation in South Africa. And in \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e, Arundhati Roy confronts an array of human rights abuses widespread in contemporary India. Each of these literary case studies further demonstrates the relevance of embodiment to both comprehending and redressing the failures of human rights, even while those narratives refuse simplistic ideals or solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Constructs by Which We Live1. Bodily Integrity and Its Exclusions2. Embodying Human Rights: Toward a Phenomenology of Social Justice3. Constituting the Liberal Subject of Rights: Salman Rushdie's \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e4. Women's Rights and the Lure of Self-Determination in Nawal El Saadawi's \u003ci\u003eWoman at Point Zero\u003c\/i\u003e5. J. M. Coetzee's \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e: The Rights of Desire and the Embodied Lives of Animals6. Arundhati Roy's \"Return to the Things Themselves\": Phenomenology and the Challenge of JusticeCoda: Small Places, Close to Home\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685676413208,"sku":"9781501705588","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fictions-of-dignity-embodying-human-rights-in-world-literature-paperback-softback-9781501705588","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}