Writing and Righting : Literature in the Age of Human Rights
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198814054
ISBN-13
9780198814054
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 26th, 2020
Print length
164 Pages
Weight
332 grams
Dimensions
14.40 x 22.30 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalEthical issues & debatesHuman rightsCivil rights & citizenship
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Lyndsey Stonebridge presents a new way to think about the relationship between literature and human rights that challenges the idea that empathy inspires action.
A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times.The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and human rights? In this short polemical book, Lyndsey Stonebridge shows how the history of human rights owes much to the creative imagining of writers. Yet, she argues, it is not enough to claim that literature is the empathetic wing of the human rights movement. At a time when human rights are so blatantly under attack, the writers we need how are the political truthtellers, the bold callers out of easy sympathy and comfortable platitudes.
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