Writing and Righting : Literature in the Age of Human Rights

Lyndsey Stonebridge

ISBN 10: 0192884689 / ISBN 13: 9780192884688

Editore: Oxford University Press Mär 2023, 2023

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Neuware - 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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• Titolo: Writing and Righting : Literature in the Age of Human Rights
• Editore: Oxford University Press Mär 2023
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0192884689
• ISBN 13: 9780192884688
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 214 L x 132 A x 10 P (millimetri) 214 millimetri di larghezza per 132 millimetri di altezza per 10 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 226 grammi

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull'autore

Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at University of Birmingham. Her books include: The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011/2014), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (with John Phillips, 1998), The Writing of Anxiety (2007), and British Fiction after Modernism (with Marina MacKay, 2007). She is currently collaborating on a large interdisciplinary project, Refugee Hosts.