Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367872748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 262 str.

Alexandra Schultheis Moore

Opis

This book responds to the failures of human rights through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can expose human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Drawing on vulnerability theory, Moore develops a transnational feminist praxis for reading human rights and their violations in contemporary literary and visual cult

Recenzje

"Ranging across a variety of media (including literature, poetry, graphic narratives, film, and photography), this interdisciplinary project makes valuable contributions to both long-standing debates about concepts such as recognition and more recent attempts to conceptualize international human rights beyond dominant Eurocentric norms…Vulnerability and Security is a tour-de-force that will no doubt become a major contribution to both human rights studies and cultural studies. Informed by feminist and postcolonial perspectives, Moore insightfully offers an important corrective to current philosophical, political, and cultural tenets of human rights studies that, even today, too often remain inattentive to intersectional forces shaping discursive understandings of what constitutes the human...Vulnerability and Security is a truly impressive book that will be most welcomed by human rights scholars and those working in related fields." --Wendy Kozol, Comparative American Studies Program, Oberlin College

Spis treści

Introduction: Human Rights in Precarious Times  1. Spectrally Human: African Child Soldier Narratives at the Limits of Legal Personhood  2. Disturbing the Archive: Human Rights Storytelling of Zimbabwe’s Gukurahundi  3. Overexposed: Compounded Vulnerability and Continuing Liability in Fiction of Bhopal  4. Re-purposing Témoignage: Humanitarian Spaces and Subjects in Photo/Graphic Narratives of Médecins Sans Frontières  5. In the Aftermath of Mass Murder: Visuality and Vertigo in the Indonesia Films of Joshua Oppenheimer

O autorze

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.