Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition

by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith

Book Overview

Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. These two contemporary domains, personal narrative and human rights, literature and international politics, are commonly understood to operate on separate planes. This study however, examines the ways these intersecting realms unfold and are enfolded in one another in ways both productive of and problematic for the achievement of social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403964955
• ISBN13: 9781403964953
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"