Writing and Righting

Literature in the Age of Human Rights

AvLyndsey Stonebridge

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times.The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and human rights? In this short polemical book, Lyndsey Stonebridge shows how the history of human rights owes much to the creative imagining of writers. Yet, she argues, it is not enough to claim that literature is the empathetic wing of the human rights movement. At a time when human rights are so blatantly under attack, the writers we need how are the political truthtellers, the bold callers out of easy sympathy and comfortable platitudes.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-01
Mått:136 x 214 x 10 mm
Vikt:226 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780192884688

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Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at University of Birmingham. Her books include: The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011/2014), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (with John Phillips, 1998), The Writing of Anxiety (2007), and British Fiction after Modernism (with Marina MacKay, 2007). She is currently collaborating on a large interdisciplinary project, Refugee Hosts.

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Over the past 20 years, Lyndsey Stonebridge has emerged as one of our most interesting literary critics. She brings together modern writers and their experience of some of the darkest episodes of the 20th century: exile, war crimes trials, humanitarian disasters... The book often has the strengths of Stonebridge's earlier works. She moves between detailed literary criticism and large questions about human rights and contemporary society. Perhaps most important of all is the originality of her subject, expanding the remit of literary criticism... Stonebridge is at her best offering fascinating close readings that open onto big, important subjects.

Innehållsförteckning

1: Introduction: Literature in the Endtimes (?) of Human Rights 2: Once More with Feeling 3: Experimental Human Rights: Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas 4: Words of Fire: Creative Citizenship 5: The Bewilderment of Everyday Violence: Shamima Begum, Freud, Citizenship and Law 6: Survival Time/Human Time: Hannah Arendt and Behrouz Boochani 7: Conclusion: Hannah Arendt in Baddawi

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