Writing and Righting
Literature in the Age of Human Rights
1st Edition
Published on 26. November 2020
160 pages
978-0-19-254374-5 (ISBN)
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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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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.
Content
- 1: Introduction: Literature in the Endtimes (?) of Human Rights
- 2: Once More with Feeling
- 3: Experimental Human Rights: Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas
- 4: Words of Fire: Creative Citizenship
- 5: The Bewilderment of Everyday Violence: Shamima Begum, Freud, Citizenship and Law
- 6: Survival Time/Human Time: Hannah Arendt and Behrouz Boochani
- 7: Conclusion: Hannah Arendt in Baddawi
