TY - BOOK ID - 119319248 TI - Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire PY - 2023 SN - 3031315316 3031315308 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Human rights in literature. KW - Salamanca school (Catholic theology) KW - Catholic Salamanca school KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Thomists KW - History KW - Comparative literature. KW - Literature. KW - World politics. KW - Law—History. KW - Drama. KW - Comparative Literature. KW - World Literature. KW - Political History. KW - Legal History. KW - Drama KW - Drama, Modern KW - Dramas KW - Dramatic works KW - Plays KW - Playscripts KW - Stage KW - Literature KW - Dialogue KW - Colonialism KW - Global politics KW - International politics KW - Political history KW - Political science KW - World history KW - Eastern question KW - Geopolitics KW - International organization KW - International relations KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Comparative literature KW - Literature, Comparative KW - Philosophy KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119319248 AB - This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the question: how do literary texts use theatrical, multisensorial strategies to denunciate the violence against enslaved people and make a claim for their rights? The Spanish context is particularly interesting because of its early tradition of human rights thinking in the Salamanca School (especially Bartolomé de Las Casas), developed in relation to slavery and colonialism. Taking its point of departure in forensic aesthetics, the book analyzes five forms of non-narrative theatricality: allegorical, carnivalesque, tragicomic, melodramatic and tragic. Karen-Margrethe Simonsen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. . ER -