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Author Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-

Title Fictions of dignity : embodying human rights in world literature / Elizabeth S. Anker.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals -- Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice -- Coda : small places, close to home.
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Subject Human rights in literature.
Human rights in literature.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Added Title Fictions of dignity (Online)
Other Form: Print version: 9780801451362 0801451361 (DLC) 2012015418
ISBN 080146563X (electronic book)
9780801465635 (electronic book)
0801451361 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780801451362 (cloth ; alkaline paper)