Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature
ISBN: 9780801465635
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



Elizabeth S. Anker examines human rights in the narrative imagination and, in the process, makes a compelling case for literature as a uniquely valuable point of entry into theoretical discussions of human rights.


Elizabeth S. Anker is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University.

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