Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network: Books Beyond Borders

ISBN-13: 9781138268791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str.

Lena Khor

Opis

Rather than viewing human rights as an immutable and ill-defined entity, Khor argues for the recognition of human rights as a social construct comprised of language and language use. Her case studies of Doctors Without Borders, Paul Rusesabagina and Hotel Rwanda, and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost support a new theoretical framework based on a global discourse network of human rights that enables textual and human actors to increase their power as speaking subjects.

Recenzje

’... breaks new ground in thinking about human rights through discourse and network theory, rather than as a matter of philosophy, history, or law. It is, in that way, likely to be a unique and important contribution to the study of human rights in the humanities. At the same time, the way it uses human rights case studies is likely to reflect back upon discourse theory and literary and cultural studies, resuscitating viable notions of agency and liberatory network power in fields that have been dominated by negative visions of human capacity and moral action.’ James Dawes, Macalester College, author of Evil Men

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Human Rights Discourse and its Global Network; Chapter 2 Human Rights Survivors as Multitude; Chapter 3 Human Rights Heroes/Humanitarian Saviors as Empire and Counter-Empire; Chapter 4 Literal and Literary Bystanders as Multitude and the Common; Chapter 101 Conclusion The Global-National and Human-Personal Paradoxes of Human Rights Discourse;

O autorze

Lena Khor is Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, where she teaches courses on postcolonial studies, globalization, and human rights. Her research interests include human rights and humanitarian discourses, globalization processes, and contemporary World Anglophone literature.