The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover:

• subjects, with pieces on subjectivity, humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body
• forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the oral
• contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events
• impacts, considering the power and limits of human rights literature, rhetoric, and visual culture

Drawn from many different global contexts, the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in new directions for future scholarship.

Contributors: Chris Abani, Jonathan E. Abel, Elizabeth S. Anker, Arturo Arias, Ariella Azoulay, Ralph Bauer, Anna Bernard, Brenda Carr Vellino, Eleni Coundouriotis, James Dawes, Erik Doxtader, Marc D. Falkoff, Keith P. Feldman, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Audrey J. Golden, Mark Goodale, Barbara Harlow, Wendy S. Hesford, Peter Hitchcock, David Holloway, Christine Hong, Madelaine Hron, Meg Jensen, Luz Angelica Kirschner, Susan Maslan, Julie Avril Minich, Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Greg Mullins, Laura T. Murphy, Hanna Musiol, Makau Mutua, Zoe Norridge, David Palumbo-Liu, Crystal Parikh, Katrina M. Powell, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Mark Sanders, Karen-Magrethe Simonsen, Joseph R. Slaughter, Sharon Sliwinski, Sidonie Smith, Domna C. Stanton, Sarah G. Waisvisz, Belinda Walzer, Ban Wang, Julia Watson, Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter.

About the Author
Sophia A. McClennen is Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature (affiliated with Spanish and Women's Studies) at Pennsylvania State University, USA and Director of The Center for Global Studies. Alexandra Schultheis Moore is Associate Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

Reviews

"The contributors offer nuanced analyses of works of literature and human rights subjects, and they do not all share the same perspective; indeed, this is one of the book's strengths...A valuable resource for those interested in the intersection of literature and human rights. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - K. Sorensen, CHOICE

Book Information
ISBN 9780367365516
Author Sophia McClennen
Format Paperback
Page Count 528
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 1020g