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Elizabeth Goldberg - Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights - 9780813540610 - V9780813540610
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Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights

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Description for Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights Paperback. Argues that after human rights violations have occurred, the realm of representation - actual and fictional - is precisely the ground upon which struggles for justice and peace are waged in legal, emotional, and cultural terms. This work also focuses on various narratives about abuses, including those in South Africa, Rwanda, and Iraq. Editor(s): Petro, Patrice. Series: New Directions in International Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPVH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.

In traditional narrative contexts-legal, psychoanalytic, and documentary-the ethics of representing violations of human rights are widely acknowledged. But what are the principles that guide the creation and dissemination of historically based fictional narratives? Are such representations capable of shaping, changing, or even effectively depicting "real" human atrocities? How do existing ideas about gender influence the way these narratives are written and perceived?

In Beyond Terror , Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg argues that after human rights violations have occurred, the realm of representation-actual and fictional-is precisely the ground upon which struggles for justice and peace are waged in legal, ... Read more

Through the lens of literary, feminist, and human rights theory, this important book examines the meaning and influence of films such as Cry Freedom, Three Kings, and Salvador , and novels such as Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali , Pat Barker's Double Vision , and Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones .

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Product Details

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
New Directions in International Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813540610
SKU
V9780813540610
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About Elizabeth Goldberg
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg is an assistant professor of English at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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