Eleni Coundouriotis (USA. University of Connecticut)

Narrating Human Rights in Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Contemporary Africa
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780367650063
• ISBN-10: 0367650061
• Artikelnr.: 67824297

Autorenporträt

Eleni Coundouriotis is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Narrating Human Rights in Africa 1. The Dignity of the
"Unfittest:" Victims' Stories in South Africa 2. Congo Cases: The Stories
of Human Rights History 3. The Child Soldier Narrative and the Problem of
Arrested Historicization: An Argument Revisited 4. Improbable Figures:
Realist Fictions of Insecurity 5. The Refugee Experience and Human Rights
Narrative 6. "You Only Have Your Word": Rape and Testimony 7. Torture and
Textuality: Guantánamo Diary as Postcolonial Text 8. Evoking the Body of
the Disappeared in Assia Djebar and Nuruddin Farah