The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Epigraph

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xii

Chronology of Major Works and Events, 1215–2018

pp xiii-xxi

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Genealogies and Contexts

pp 11-72

1 - Recounting History, Locating Precursors for Human Rights

pp 13-26

2 - Humanitarianism’s Way in the World

pp 27-41

3 - Literature, Human Rights, and the Cold War

pp 42-57

4 - Human Rights in the Vernacular

pp 58-72

Part II - Fashioning Methods

pp 73-126

5 - Law and Literature, the Procedural and the Performative

pp 75-87

6 - Human Rights Modes and Media

pp 88-99

7 - Remembering the Forgetting

pp 100-113

8 - Queering Human Rights

pp 114-126

Part III - Generic Representations

pp 127-190

9 - Narrating the Human Person

pp 129-140

10 - The Dramas of Human Rights

pp 141-153

11 - Poetic Justice and the Idea of Poetic Redress

pp 154-166

12 - Truth-Telling

pp 167-177

13 - Visualizing the World

pp 178-190

Part IV - Writing Human Rights

pp 191-232

14 - Perpetrators, Victims, and Beneficiaries

pp 193-205

15 - Routing Emotions, Forming Humans

pp 206-216

16 - Beyond Sovereignty

pp 217-232

Select Bibliography

pp 233-238

Index

pp 239-248