Alexandra Schultheis Moore

Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This book responds to the failures of human rights through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can expose human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Drawing on vulnerability theory, Moore develops a transnational feminist praxis for reading human rights and their violations in contemporary literary and visual culture in five (post-)colonial and transnational contexts. Moore demonstrates that the twinned discourses of precarity and security may open up readings of human rights claims that are, at once, embodied and shareable, and at the same time are themselves vulnerable to cooptation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138860278
• ISBN-10: 1138860271
• Artikelnr.: 42744043

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Schultheis Moore is Associate Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Human Rights in Precarious Times 1. Spectrally Human: African
Child Soldier Narratives at the Limits of Legal Personhood 2. Disturbing
the Archive: Human Rights Storytelling of Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi 3.
Overexposed: Compounded Vulnerability and Continuing Liability in Fiction
of Bhopal 4. Re-purposing Témoignage: Humanitarian Spaces and Subjects in
Photo/Graphic Narratives of Médecins Sans Frontières 5. In the Aftermath of
Mass Murder: Visuality and Vertigo in the Indonesia Films of Joshua
Oppenheimer