The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive transnational and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind this volume covers essential issues and themes necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: subjects with pieces on subjectivity humanity identity gender universality the particular the body forms visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary the visual the performative and the oral contexts tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts considering the power and limits of human rights literature rhetoric and visual culture Drawn from many different global contexts the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives or interested in new directions for future scholarship. Contributors: Chris Abani Jonathan E. Abel Elizabeth S. Anker Arturo Arias Ariella Azoulay Ralph Bauer Anna Bernard Brenda Carr Vellino Eleni Coundouriotis James Dawes Erik Doxtader Marc D. Falkoff Keith P. Feldman Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg Audrey J. Golden Mark Goodale Barbara Harlow Wendy S. Hesford Peter Hitchcock David Holloway Christine Hong Madelaine Hron Meg Jensen Luz Angélica Kirschner Susan Maslan Julie Avril Minich Alexandra Schultheis Moore Greg Mullins Laura T. Murphy Hanna Musiol Makau Mutua Zoe Norridge David Palumbo-Liu Crystal Parikh Katrina M. Powell Claudia Sadowski-Smith Mark Sanders Karen-Magrethe Simonsen Joseph R. Slaughter Sharon Sliwinski Sidonie Smith Domna C. Stanton Sarah G. Waisvisz Belinda Walzer Ban Wang Julia Watson Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter.|The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights | Literature
