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Lyndsey Stonebridge - Writing and Righting, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Writing and Righting

Literature in the Age of Human Rights

Av Lyndsey Stonebridge

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-11-26
  • Mått: 145 x 224 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 328 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 164
  • Förlag: OUP OXFORD
  • ISBN: 9780198814054
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Lyndsey Stonebridge is Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her recent books include: Placeless People: Rights, Writing, and Refugees (OUP, 2018), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize, 2019, and The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, 2014. Her other books include The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (with J. Phillip, 1998), The Writing of Anxiety (2007), and British Fiction after Modernism (with M. MacKay, 2007). She is currently collaborating on a creative and interdisciplinary project with refugees and host communities in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, Refugee Hosts. A regular broadcaster and media commentator, she has written for The New Statesman, Prospect, and The New Humanist.

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Each of Stonebridge's case studies are about moments like this-moments when the limits of our moral and political worlds become unbearable, when the routine language of justice rings hollow, when people begin to speak and write outside the boundaries of what is expected and accepted. In our world of baffled and defeated outrage, nothing could be more necessary.

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