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Author Nayar, Pramod K.

Title Writing wrongs : the cultural construction of human rights in India / Pramod K. Nayar.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction: the culture of human rights -- 2. Atrocity, the trauma narrative and the victim-subject -- 3. The other victim: the survivor as witness and the work of testimony -- 4. The postcolonial bildungsroman, 'knowing subalternity' and the citizen-subject -- 5. Human rights, narrative and the sympathetic imagination -- 6. Conclusion: reading matters.
Summary "This book examines the 'cultural apparatus' of human rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, literature, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries. ... [It] emphasizes the need for an ethical turn to literary-cultural studies and a cultural turn to Human Rights studies"--Page 4 of cover
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Human rights -- India -- Personal narratives.
Human rights.
India.
Genre/Form Personal narratives.
Subject Victims -- India -- Personal narratives.
Victims.
Human rights in literature.
Human rights in literature.
Human rights in mass media.
Human rights -- India.
India -- Social aspects.
Human rights in mass media.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Personal narratives.
Subject Human rights.
Added Title Cultural construction of human rights in India
Other Form: Print version: Nayar, Pramod K. Writing wrongs 9780415529082 (OCoLC)794577064
ISBN 9781317809081 (electronic book)
1317809084 (electronic book)
1315815923 (electronic book)
9781315815923 (electronic book)
9780415529082
0415529085