The Modes of Human Rights Literature: Towards a Culture without Borders

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-re...

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Main Author: Galchinsky, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Cham s.l. Springer International Publishing 2016
In:Year: 2016
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Culture > Study and teaching
Literature, Modern > 20th century
Literature, Modern > 21st century
Literature
Comparative Literature
Literatur > Literaturproduktion > Menschenrecht > Zivilgesellschaft
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9783319318509
Erscheint auch als: 9783319318523
Erscheint auch als: 9783319811376
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Summary: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. Michael Galchinsky is Professor of English, an affiliate of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy at Georgia State University, and a Fellow at the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology, USA. He writes on human rights literature, international human rights law, and Jewish studies
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 132 p)
ISBN:9783319318516
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-31851-6