Editors:
- Looks to the imaginative capacities of literature, art and culture as sites to imagine human rights
- Discusses the possibility of decolonial and posthuman approaches to rights discourses
- Considers how different forms, materials, perspectives, and aesthetics might mark the limits of normative human rights
- Contributes to the cultural production of new human rights imaginaries beyond the borders of state and self
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights (PSLCHR)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Re-figuring Human Rights and Humanitarianism from 1960 to the Present
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Securitization, Toxicity, and the Future of Rights
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Back Matter
About this book
This book investigates the imaginative capacities of literature, art and culture as sites for reimagining human rights, addressing deep historical and structural forms of belonging and unbelonging; the rise of xenophobia, neoliberal governance, and securitization that result in the purposeful precaritization of marginalized populations; ecological damage that threatens us all, yet the burdens of which are distributed unequally; and the possibility of decolonial and posthuman approaches to rights discourses. The book starts from the premise that there are deep-seated limits to the political possibilities of state and individual sovereignty in terms of protecting human rights around the world. The essays explore how different forms, materials, perspectives, and aesthetics can help reveal the limits of normative human rights and contribute to the cultural production of new human rights imaginaries beyond the borders of state and self.
Editors and Affiliations
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Binghamton University, New York, USA
Alexandra S. Moore
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University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Samantha Pinto
About the editors
Alexandra S. Moore is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton University, USA. Her most recent publications include the monograph Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture (2016) and several co-edited collections—Witnessing Torture: Perspectives of Survivors and Human Rights Workers (with Swanson, 2018); The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (with McClennen, 2015); and Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies (with Goldberg, 2015). Her current research focus is on cultural representations of rendition, torture, and indefinite detention in the war on terror.
Samantha Pinto is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her book Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic (NYU Press, 2013) was the winner of the 2013 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for African American Literature and Culture from the MLA. Her second book, Infamous Bodies (2020), explores the relationship between 18th- and 19th-century black women celebrities and discourses of race, gender, & human rights. Currently, she is at work on her third book on race, embodiment, and scientific discourse in African American and African Diaspora culture.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Writing Beyond the State
Book Subtitle: Post-Sovereign Approaches to Human Rights in Literary Studies
Editors: Alexandra S. Moore, Samantha Pinto
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34456-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34455-9Published: 15 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34458-0Published: 15 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34456-6Published: 14 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-8820
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8839
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 302
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Human Rights and Crime , Human Rights, Conflict Studies