...Sarah Winter This essay locates the subject of human rights in the narrative forms of J. M. Coetzee's novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe through an interpretation drawing on Jacques Rancière's theory of dissensus and tracing the novel's historical relations to the equitable and remedial...

...Eleni Coundouriotis Anker Elizabeth , Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature ( Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2012 ) , pp. 272, cloth, $45.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 One of the epigraphs to Elizabeth Anker's provocative study signals...

... human right: the right to mobility. It starts by explaining how this right is articulated in the early modern period at the international geopolitical scale as the freedom of navigation. It then links the freedom of the seas to the empowered agency of Crusoe and fellow mariners across the history...

... curiously formulaic design offers another means by which it dramatizes the poverty of the anti-instrumental tradition in the current political landscape. Ultimately, I suggest, we may understand these dramas of immediacy, and the related interest in those suffering from human rights abuses, as a symptomatic...

...Saikat Majumdar JOSEPH R. SLAUGHTER, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law (New York: Fordham UP, 2007), pp. 435, paper, $28.00. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Incorporated into Humanity joseph r. slaughter, Human Rights, Inc...

..., 1990 . Balfour , Ian and Eduardo Cadava, eds. Special Issue: And Justice for All?: The Claims of Human Rights. South Atlantic Quarterly 103.2/3 ( 2004 ). Balfour , Ian and Eduardo Cadava, eds. “The Claims of Human Rights: An Introduction.” Balfour and Cadava 277 –96. Baucom...

..., Placeless People sets its sights on the limited ability of a refurbished concept of human rights to ameliorate the problems of displacement that were inseparable from the very aims of the war. Differences of focus aside, however, these volumes are closely intertwined and best read in tandem. Of the six...

... in the philosophical works of Adam Smith and David Hume) and popular sovereignty (as articulated in the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen) took hold, Ganguly contends that the post-1989 novel is defined by a new and more radical understanding of “the idea of humanitarian suffering and the human...

... us to think anew about our readerly expectations for typicality and the quotidian. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Realism Georg Lukács Nuruddin Farah Zakes Mda Uwem Akpan insecurity human rights Novels that depict the effects of prolonged and extreme insecurity...

... that crises are not merely the backdrop for politics but are themselves effec- tive political tools for manufacturing consensus, winning support for the curtailment of civil and human rights, and justifying imperial forms of interventionism. Arne De Boever’s States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel...

..., here, it interrogates the law's pretexts for differentiating between legal questions and private or domestic matters. So instead of dramatizing the natural rights of the liberal individual, the formal rights of the English citizen, or the natural rights of the human, Pamela stages a conflict between...

... of Decolonization . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2009 . Slaughter Joseph R. Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law . New York : Fordham UP , 2007 . Spinks Lee . Michael Ondaatje . Manchester : Manchester UP , 2009 . Stanton Katherine...

... its rational foundation with a sentimental one” (532). In doing so they produced a conceptual break that informed the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen (1789) and, in turn, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). The gaps in Edelstein's argument provide the basis...

... . Slaughter Joseph . Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law . New York : Fordham UP , 2007 . Smith Steven B. Hegel's Critique of Liberalism: Rights in Context . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1991 . Tunç Ayfer . Yeşil Peri Gecesi [The Night...

... of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature (2012), she is now at work on a book titled ‘‘Consti- tutional Failure and the Aesthetic Formations of Sovereignties in Crisis elizabeth maddock dillon is professor of English at Northeastern University and co-director of the Futures...

... Joseph R. Human Rights, Inc. : The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law . New York : Fordham UP , 2007 . Soni Vivasvan . Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2010 . Taylor Charles . “Modes of Secularism...

... the same authority as any other, the “relativism and perspectivism that lie implicit in the genre of the novel” (285) had in turn several consequences: “The legal consequence of this process was the rise of human rights, the political consequence was democracy, the philosophical consequence was relativism...

... as a means to offset the prevailing form of corporate personhood. The imagined body of the corporation, capable of standing in for the physical bodies of its agent workers, has been gifted the presumption of thought. Corporations now hold religious convictions, argue for human rights, and announce political...

... of reducing human life forms to the condition of bare life. According to Agamben, the sovereign subject of human rights that the Enlighten- ment ostensibly installed to oppose this oppressive dynamic in fact reproduced it: Declarations of rights represent the originary figure of the inscription...

...?tarih=07/01/2007 >. ———. Gizli yüz . Istanbul : Can Yayınları , 1991 . ———. “Human Rights in Turkey: Orhan Pamuk.” Jackson School Freedom of Expression Series . U of Washington , Seatle . 22 Mar. 1997 . ———. Kar . Istanbul : İletişim , 2002 . ———. Kara kitap . Istanbul...