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! Read ^ Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law by Joseph R. Slaughter Í eBook or Kindle ePUB. Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law This analysis of the cultural work of law and of the social work of literature challenges traditional Eurocentric histories of both international law and the dissemination of the novel. Revising our received understanding of the relationship between law and literature, Slaughter suggests that this narrative form has acted as a cultural surrogate for the weak executive authority of international law, naturalizing the assumptions and conditions that make human rights appear commonsensical. Taking
| Title | : | Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823228185 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 435 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
"Terrific" according to Adam Katz. I had him as a professor a few semesters ago. What a great class. If this book is anything like what we had in that room (and once, in May, on the lawn) you'll love it.
truly interdisciplinary, reading literature through law in a way that demonstrates a deep familiarity with bothe study represents comparative literary theory and practice at their best. --Rene Wellek Prize Citation 2008Seamlessly moves between discussions of philosophy, history, literary criticism, politics, and policy to support an original and compelling argument.-Kerry BystromThe author clearly prefers depth and density--the argument is approached from multiplace angles, and nailed down tightly at every turn--and these qualities mark the book's dedication to rigorous scholarship. is is a tremendously exciting book, leaping adroitly between literature, history, politics and philosophy .. --Rene W
SLAUGHTER is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.. JOSEPH R
This analysis of the cultural work of law and of the social work of literature challenges traditional Eurocentric histories of both international law and the dissemination of the novel. Revising our received understanding of the relationship between law and literature, Slaughter suggests that this narrative form has acted as a cultural surrogate for the weak executive authority of international law, naturalizing the assumptions and conditions that make human rights appear commonsensical. Taking his point of departure in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, Slaughter focuses on recent postcolonial versions of the coming-of-age story to show how the promise of human rights becomes legible in narrative and how the novel and the law are complicit in contemporary projects of globalization: in colonialism, neoimperalism, humanitarianism, and the spread of multinational consumer capitalism.Slaughter raises important practical and ethical questions that we must confront in advocating for human rights and reading world literature-imperatives that, today more than ever, are intertwine
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