Pramod K Nayar

Writing Wrongs

The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the 'cultural apparatus' of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries, moving across multiple media and genres for their representations of Dalits, riot victims, prisoners, abused and abandoned women, and children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781138662551
• ISBN-10: 1138662550
• Artikelnr.: 44826076

Autorenporträt

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations. Preface. Acknowledgements 1. Introducing the Culture
of Human Rights 2. Atrocity, the Trauma Narrative and the Victim-Subject
3. The Other Victim: The Survivor as Witness and the Work of Testimony 4.
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman, 'Knowing Subalternity' and the
Citizen-Subject 5. Human Rights, Narrative and the Sympathetic Imagination
6. Conclusion: Reading Matters. Bibliography. About the Author. Index