Narrating human rights in Africa

"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. Instead of positioning literary texts as illustrative...

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1. Verfasser: Coundouriotis, Eleni 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Schriftenreihe:Routledge contemporary Africa series
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Dignity of the "Unfittest:" Victims' Stories in South Africa
  • Congo Cases: The Stories of Human Rights History
  • The Child Soldier Narrative and the Problem of Arrested Historicization
  • an Argument Revisited
  • Improbable Figures: Realist Fictions of Insecurity
  • The Refugee Experience and Human Rights Narrative
  • "You Only Have Your Word": Rape and Testimony
  • Torture and Textuality: GuantaÌnamo Diary as Postcolonial Text
  • Evoking the Body of the Disappeared in Assia Djebar and Nuruddin Farah