Rakhshan Rizwan

Kashmiri Life Narratives (eBook, ePUB)

Human Rights, Pleasure and the Local Cosmopolitan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Scholarly theorizations of storytelling forms within human rights texts such as novels, human rights reports, testimonies or life narratives, typically focus on representations of physical pain. In contrast, this book shows how Kashmiri life narratives perform human rights advocacy through representations of pleasure and happiness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000071528
• Artikelnr.: 59279089

Autorenporträt

Rakhshan Rizwan is a writer and scholar working at the intersection of creative and scholarly practice. She is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has a PhD in Comparative Literature. She has been a guest researcher at the Tilburg Law School. Her research interests include human rights and literature, postcolonial novels, decolonial legal fictions and minority rights and representation. She is author of "Local Flows: The Pleasurecentric Turn in Human Rights Advocacy in South Asia" (Tilburg Law Review, 2017) and "Repudiating the fathers: Resistance and Writing Back in Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator" (Kashmir Lit, 2013). Her poetry pamphlet, Paisley (2017) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Poet and the Cassette Player
Chapter 1 Mobilizing Pleasure through Genre: Curfewed Night and Our
Moon Has Bloodclots as Kashmiri Bildungsromane
Chapter 2 Literary Fiction as an Alternative to a Human Rights Report:
The Case of Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator
Chapter 3 Imagining Local Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Human Rights in
Sudha Koul's The Tiger Ladies
Chapter 4 Palatable Fictions: Negotiating Narratives of Consumption and
Subalternity in Jaspreet Singh's Chef
Chapter Five Portable Pleasures and Papier Mache: Strategic exoticism in
Mirza Waheed's The Book of Gold Leaves
Conclusion