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The Modes of Human Rights Literature : Towards a Culture Without Borders
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9783319318509
- ISBN-10: 3319318500
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: August 2016
- Dimensions: 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.38 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.73 pounds
- Page Count: 132
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