Human Rights, Inc. – The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law

Human Rights, Inc.The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law\nAuthor(s): Joseph R. Slaughter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823228171, 978-0823228171\nSynopsis\nIn this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of \""world literature\"" and international human rights law are related phenomena. \n Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel of coming of age, fills out this image, offering a conceptual vocabulary, a humanist social vision, and a narrative grammar for what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and early literary theorists both call \""the free and full development of the human personality.\""\n Revising our received understanding of the relationshi.