THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map of this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings of key topics.Thefirstofitskind,thisvolumecoversessentialissuesandthemes,necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Parts cover: (cid:1) subjects, with pieces on subjectivity, humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body (cid:1) forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the oral (cid:1) contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events (cid:1) impacts,considering the power andlimitsofhuman rightsliterature,rhetoric,and visual culture Drawnfrommanydifferentglobalcontexts,theessaysofferanidealintroductionfor thoseapproachingthestudyofliteratureandhumanrightsforthefirsttime,looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in new directions for future scholarship. Contributors:ChrisAbani,JonathanE.Abel,ElizabethS.Anker,ArturoArias,Ariella Azoulay, Ralph Bauer, Anna Bernard, Brenda Carr Vellino, Eleni Coundouriotis, James Dawes,Erik Doxtader,MarcD.Falkoff,Keith P.Feldman,ElizabethSwanson Goldberg, Audrey J. Golden, Mark Goodale, Barbara Harlow, Wendy S. Hesford, Peter Hitchcock, David Holloway, Christine Hong, Madelaine Hron, Meg Jensen, Luz Angélica Kirschner, Susan Maslan, Julie Avril Minich, Alexandra Schultheis Moore,GregMullins,LauraT.Murphy,HannaMusiol,MakauMutua,ZoeNorridge, David Palumbo-Liu, Crystal Parikh, Katrina M. Powell, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Mark Sanders, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Joseph R. Slaughter, Sharon Sliwinski, Sidonie Smith, Domna C. Stanton, Sarah G. Waisvisz, Belinda Walzer, Ban Wang, Julia Watson, Gillian Whitlock, and Sarah Winter. SophiaA.McClennenisProfessorofInternationalAffairsandComparativeLiterature (affiliated with Spanish and Women’s Studies) at Pennsylvania State University, USA and Director of the Center for Global Studies. AlexandraSchultheisMooreisAssociateProfessorofEnglishandProgramFacultyin Women’sandGenderStudiesattheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatGreensboro,USA. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THIS SERIES The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction Also available in paperback The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science Also available in paperback The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature Also available in paperback The Routledge Companion to World Literature Also available in paperback The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature Also available in paperback The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature Also available in paperback The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore Add AddAdAddd AddAddAdd Add AddAdd AdAddd Firstpublished2016 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2016SophiaA.McClennenandAlexandraSchultheisMoore,editorialand selectionmaterial;individualchapters,thecontributors Therightoftheeditorstobeidentifiedastheauthoroftheeditorialmaterial,andof theauthorsfortheirindividualchapters,hasbeenassertedinaccordancewith sections77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilised inanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownor hereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformation storageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguing-in-PublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData TheRoutledgecompaniontoliteratureandhumanrights/editedby SophiaA.McClennenandAlexandraSchultheisMoore.–Firstedition. pagescm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Humanrightsinliterature.2.Socialjusticeinliterature.3.Lawandliterature. 4.Literatureandsociety.5.Literature–Historyandcriticism.I.McClennen, SophiaA.,author,editor.II.Moore,AlexandraSchultheis,author,editor.III.Title: Companiontoliteratureandhumanrights.IV.Title:Literatureandhumanrights. PN56.H79R682015 809’.933581–dc23 2015002438 ISBN:978-0-415-73641-1(hbk) ISBN:978-1-315-77837-2(ebk) TypesetinGoudy byTaylor&FrancisBooks For Chloë, Isabel, Samantha, and Sebastian This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS List of Figures xii List of Contributors xiv Acknowledgments xx Introduction: Aporia and Affirmative Critique: Mapping the Landscape of Literary Approaches to Human Rights Research 1 SOPHIA A. MCCLENNEN AND ALEXANDRA SCHULTHEIS MOORE PART I 21 Subjects 1 A New Universal for Human Rights?: The Particular, the Generalizable, the Political 27 DOMNA C. STANTON 2 “Commonly Human”: Embodied Self-Possession and Human Rights in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother 37 ELIZABETH S. ANKER 3 Who Is Human?: Disability, Literature, and Human Rights 46 JULIE AVRIL MINICH 4 Queer Rights? 53 GREG A. MULLINS 5 Gendering Human Rights and Their Violation: A Reading of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee 60 ELIZABETH SWANSON GOLDBERG 6 Contingent Vulnerabilities: Child Soldiers as Human Rights Subjects 69 WENDY S. HESFORD vii CONTENTS 7 In Flight: The Refugee Experience and Human Rights Narrative 78 ELENI COUNDOURIOTIS 8 Immolation 86 PETER HITCHCOCK 9 Remembering Perpetrators: The Kunstlerroman and Second-Generation Witnessing in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker 94 SARAH G. WAISVISZ PART II 103 Forms 10 Vanishing Points: When Narrative Is Not Simply There 109 JOSEPH R. SLAUGHTER 11 The Reemergence of the Slave Narrative Tradition and the Search for a New Frederick Douglass 126 LAURA T. MURPHY 12 Reading Human Rights Literatures through Oral Traditions 136 KATRINA M. POWELL 13 Beyond the Trauma Aesthetic: The Cultural Work of Human Rights Witness Poetries 148 BRENDA CARR VELLINO 14 Ending World War II: Visual Literacy Class in Human Rights 159 ARIELLA AZOULAY 15 Inventing Human Dignity 173 SHARON SLIWINSKI 16 The Legible Face of Human Rights in Autobiographically Based Fiction 184 MEG JENSEN 17 The World-Form of Human Rights Comics 193 CHRISTINE HONG 18 Sorry Business 206 GILLIAN WHITLOCK 19 From “Tutsi Crush” to “FWP”: Satire, Sentiment, and Rights in African Texts and Contexts 215 MADELAINE HRON viii CONTENTS 20 #NotABugSplat: Becoming Human on the Terrain of Visual Culture 224 KEITH P. FELDMAN 21 FragmentedFormsandShiftingContexts:How CanSocialMedia Work for Human Rights? 233 DAVID PALUMBO-LIU 22 What about False Witnessing?: The Limits of Authenticity and Verification 243 SIDONIE SMITH AND JULIA WATSON PART III 253 Contexts 23 Nature and Society in Revolutionary Rights Debates 260 SUSAN MASLAN 24 The “Rites of Discovery”: Law and Narrative in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic World 268 RALPH BAUER 25 Natural Rights and Power in the Spanish Comedia after the Conquest 279 KAREN-MARGRETHE SIMONSEN 26 Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): An Essay in Bibliography 289 BARBARA HARLOW 27 Localizing Human Rights: Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India and the Lacuna in International Justice 299 AUDREY J. GOLDEN 28 Colonialism, Inherited Rights, and Social Movements of Self-Protection 309 BAN WANG 29 Transition and Transformation: Human Rights and Ubuntu in Antjie Krog’s Writings after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 318 MARK SANDERS 30 Violence, Indigeneities and Human Rights 326 ARTURO ARIAS 31 Human Rights and Cultural Representations of Mexico-US Border Migration 333 CLAUDIA SADOWSKI-SMITH ix