東華大學圖書館 |

語系: 繁體中文

說明(常見問題)

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

登入

回首頁

切換: 標籤 | MARC模式 | ISBD

World literature, narrative ethics, ...

Anker, Elizabeth S.

FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

World literature, narrative ethics, and the discourse of human rights.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	World literature, narrative ethics, and the discourse of human rights./
作者:	Anker, Elizabeth S.
面頁冊數:	230 p.
附註:	Adviser: Peter Brooks.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-01A.
標題:	Literature, African. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3248089

World literature, narrative ethics, and the discourse of human rights.
Anker, Elizabeth S.

World literature, narrative ethics, and the discourse of human rights. - 230 p.

Adviser: Peter Brooks.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2007.

"World Literature, Narrative Ethics, and the Discourse of Human Rights," by challenging the legal and philosophical construct of "human rights," suggests newly emergent paradigms for thinking about the aims and ambitions of international social justice. As appeals to human rights have only gained visibility in the political, legal, and popular imaginaries, this project argues that we are currently in the midst of a discursive impasse and looks to the postcolonial novel for an urgently needed reconceptualization of our expectations for human rights. Most appraisals of literature's contributions to human rights exclusively celebrate the sheer act of narration; however, the novels in this study self-consciously illuminate the many tensions inherent to representing injustice. Moreover, rather than to perceive human rights as unyielding or normative standards, this project reads human rights as inextricable dilemmas that should be approached with a cautiously tragic sensibility.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

World literature, narrative ethics, and the discourse of human rights.
LDR:03254nam 2200301 a 45 001 939200
005 20110512
008 110512s2007 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
035 $a (UMI)AAI3248089
035 $a AAI3248089
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Anker, Elizabeth S. $3 1263196
245 1 0 $a World literature, narrative ethics, and the discourse of human rights.
300 $a 230 p.
500 $a Adviser: Peter Brooks.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-01, Section: A, page: 0179.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2007.
520 $a "World Literature, Narrative Ethics, and the Discourse of Human Rights," by challenging the legal and philosophical construct of "human rights," suggests newly emergent paradigms for thinking about the aims and ambitions of international social justice. As appeals to human rights have only gained visibility in the political, legal, and popular imaginaries, this project argues that we are currently in the midst of a discursive impasse and looks to the postcolonial novel for an urgently needed reconceptualization of our expectations for human rights. Most appraisals of literature's contributions to human rights exclusively celebrate the sheer act of narration; however, the novels in this study self-consciously illuminate the many tensions inherent to representing injustice. Moreover, rather than to perceive human rights as unyielding or normative standards, this project reads human rights as inextricable dilemmas that should be approached with a cautiously tragic sensibility.
520 $a The first chapter considers how J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace presents two philosophical alternatives to human rights: its protagonist's "rights of desire" to exert his sexuality without inhibition and a communitarian ethos of collective bondedness disabused of the fictions of human "dignity" and entitlement underpinning human rights. Moreover, the ethical indeterminacy of the novel's conclusion shows the limits to our conventionally binaristic ways for making calculations about social and legal justice. In a second chapter, Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown contains a very bleak forecast for human rights while meditating upon the rise of international terror and the hurdles to representing the subjectivity of the terrorist. Finally, a concluding chapter examines the pressing conflict between "cultural rights" and women's rights in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero. Although Woman at Point Zero's frame narrator purports to offer a clear human rights parable, its protagonist's narrative refuses a generalizable status and defies containment within the limited codes available for the articulation of human rights. Ultimately, by revealing the ambivalent choices that surround any rights enforcement, I argue that the literary medium is uniquely able to expose both its own complicity and the intractable quandaries at play in any appeal to human rights.
590 $a School code: 0246.
650 4 $a Literature, African. $3 1022872
650 4 $a Literature, Comparative. $3 530051
650 4 $a Literature, English. $3 1017709
650 4 $a Literature, Middle Eastern. $3 1018103
690 $a 0295
690 $a 0315
690 $a 0316
690 $a 0593
710 2 $a University of Virginia. $3 645578
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 68-01A.
790 $a 0246
790 1 0 $a Brooks, Peter, $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2007
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3248089