Literature and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Literature and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse 1
4. Empathy, Literature and Human Rights: The Case of Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper 9
5. Privacy, Blighted Lives, and a Blindspot in British Law 27
6. A Squeamishness about Existing: Fernando Pessoa’s Quiet Rejection of the Human in The Book of Disquiet 67
7. I and Another: Rethinking the Subject of Human Rights with Dostoyevsky, Bakhtin and Simondon 83
8. Dehumanizing the Enemy: How to Avoid Human Rights 101
9. Am I not a man and a brother? 113
10. Mental Illness and Human Rights in Patrick McGrath’s Asylum 133
11. The Role of Forensics in Human Rights Discourse: Kathy Reichs’s Crime Fiction and the Rights of the Dead 155
12. Rumpole and the Rights of Accused Terrorists 171
13. Reality, Theatre and Human Rights 185
14. The Rights and Wrongs of Marriage: Article 16.2 UDHR and the Case of Edith Dombey 195
15. Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters and the Cause of Female Literacy in India 205
16. The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta, by Montagu Slater: Oral Tradition and Fundamental Rights in the Trial 229
17. ‘n Droë Wit Seisoen in die Stormkaap: André Brink and the Fundamental Rights of the Afrikaners in Apartheid South Africa 235
18. The Definition of “Linguistic Minority” 255
19. Rights of Humans/Rights of Nature: The Language of Environmental Rights in UN Documents 271
20. On Crimes, Punishments, and Words: Legal and Language Issues in Cesare Beccaria’s Works 289
21. Dignity and Disgrace in Law and Literature 309
22. Contributors 329
23. Index 333