The Modes of Human Rights Literature
Towards a Culture without Borders
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | Michael Galchinsky | ISBN: | 9783319318516 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing | Publication: | August 17, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | Michael Galchinsky |
| ISBN: | 9783319318516 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
| Publication: | August 17, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility—a culture without borders. Michael Galchinsky maintains that, no matter how many treaties there are, a rights-respecting world will not truly exist until people everywhere can imagine it. The Modes of Human Rights Literature describes four major forms of human rights literature: protest, testimony, lament, and laughter to reveal how such works give common symbolic forms to widely held sociopolitical emotions.
This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility—a culture without borders. Michael Galchinsky maintains that, no matter how many treaties there are, a rights-respecting world will not truly exist until people everywhere can imagine it. The Modes of Human Rights Literature describes four major forms of human rights literature: protest, testimony, lament, and laughter to reveal how such works give common symbolic forms to widely held sociopolitical emotions.
