Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780198814054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 176 str.

Lyndsey Stonebridge

Opis

Lyndsey Stonebridge presents a new way to think about the relationship between literature and human rights that challenges the idea that empathy inspires action.

Recenzje

Each of Stonebridge's case studies are about moments like this-moments when the limits of our moral and political worlds become unbearable, when the routine language of justice rings hollow, when people begin to speak and write outside the boundaries of what is expected and accepted. In our world of baffled and defeated outrage, nothing could be more necessary. James Dawes, Macalester College, 1240 ALH Online Review

O autorze

Lyndsey Stonebridge is Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her recent books include: Placeless People: Rights, Writing, and Refugees (OUP, 2018), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize, 2019, and The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, 2014. Her other books include The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (with J. Phillip, 1998), The Writing of Anxiety (2007), and British Fiction after Modernism (with M. MacKay, 2007). She is currently collaborating on a creative and interdisciplinary project with refugees and host communities in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, Refugee Hosts. A regular broadcaster and media commentator, she has written for The New Statesman, Prospect, and The New Humanist.