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Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. In Fictions of Dignity, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that helps to explain many of the contemporary and historical failures of human rights, revealing why and how lives are excluded from human rights protections along the lines of race, gender, class, disability, and species membership. In the process, Anker examines the vital work performed by a particular kind of narrative imagination in fostering respect for human rights. Drawing on phenomenology, Anker suggests how an embodied politics of reading might restore a vital fleshiness to the overly abstract, decorporealized subject of liberal rights.Each of the novels Anker examines approaches human rights in terms of limits and paradoxes. Rushdie's Midnight's Children addresses the obstacles to incorporating rights into a formerly colonized nation's legal culture. El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero takes up controversies over women's freedoms in Islamic society. In Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee considers the disappointments of post-apartheid reconciliation in South Africa. And in The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy confronts an array of human rights abuses widespread in contemporary India. Each of these literary case studies further demonstrates the relevance of embodiment to both comprehending and redressing the failures of human rights, even while those narratives refuse simplistic ideals or solutions.

Literature, Modern --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Social justice in literature. --- Human rights in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Human rights in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Social justice in literature --- History and criticism --- Droits de l'homme --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Justice (philosophie) --- Littérature occidentale --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Littérature occidentale --- Dans la littérature.

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Black Odysseys explores creative works by artists of ultimately African descent which respond to the Homeric Odyssey. Considering what the ancient Greek epic has signified for those struggling to emerge from the shadow of European imperialism, and how it has inspired anticolonial poets, novelists, playwrights, and directors, Justine McConnell examines twentieth- and twenty-first century works from Africa and the African diaspora.

Identité (psychologie) --- Littérature occidentale --- Africains --- African diaspora. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Homecoming in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Dans la littérature. --- Auteurs noirs --- Histoire et critique. --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Homère. --- Homère --- Homer. --- Influence. --- Identité (psychologie) --- Littérature occidentale --- Dans la littérature. --- Homère. --- Homère

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La première moitié du XXe siècle a vu un incontestable développement de réécritures de grands mythes grecs et romains et de reprises de figures de l'Antiquité, tant dans des oeuvres qualifiées de "néo-classiques" (Orphée de Cocteau, Oedipe de Gide par exemple) que dans des productions des avant-gardes qui s'affirment à cette époque (Les Mamelles de Tiresias d'Apollinaire, Ulysses de Joyce ou The Waste Land de TS Eliot, pour n'en citer que quelques-unes). Les enjeux esthétiques de la réappropriation de ces mythes et figures de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine ne peuvent être pleinement mesurés que si sont prises en compte les implications idéologiques et philosophiques de ce même phénomène. La Grèce dans l'Allemagne nazie, Rome dans l'Italie fasciste, le "mythe" et le "sacré" dans la pensée de leurs théoriciens ne revêtent évidemment pas les mêmes significations que pour des défenseurs de l'humanisme et de la démocratie. Et on ne peut plus parler de la même façon de Dionysos, d'Apollon et d'Oedipe après Nietzsche et Freud. Quelles idées de l'homme, de la cité et de l'art sont en cause et en jeu lorsque des "modernes" reviennent à la matière des mythes antiques ou utilisent des figures de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine ?

Mythology, Classical, in literature --- Civilization, Ancient, in literature --- Literature, Modern --- Mythologie ancienne dans la littérature --- Civilisation ancienne dans la littérature --- Littérature --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Littérature occidentale --- Littérature antique --- Civilisation classique --- Philosophie classique --- Literatur --- Rezeption --- Antike --- Sources --- Influence --- Geschichte 1900-1945 --- Europa --- Mythologie ancienne dans la littérature --- Civilisation ancienne dans la littérature --- Littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Influence. --- Sources. --- Literatur. --- Rezeption. --- Antike. --- Europa. --- Themes, motives. --- Littérature occidentale --- Littérature antique --- Philosophie antique

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No aspect of modernist literature has attracted more passionate defenses, or more furious denunciations, than its affinity for the idea of autonomy. A belief in art as a law unto itself is central to the work of many writers from the late nineteenth century to the present. But is this belief just a way of denying art's social contexts, its roots in the lives of its creators, its political and ethical obligations? Fictions of Autonomy argues that the concept of autonomy is, on the contrary, essential for understanding modernism historically. Disputing the prevailing skepticism about autonomy, Andrew Goldstone shows that the pursuit of relative independence within society is modernism's distinctive way of relating to its contexts. Goldstone examines an expansive modernist field in fiction, poetry, and theory-Oscar Wilde, J.-K. Huysmans, Henry James, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, Djuna Barnes, Theodor Adorno, Paul de Man-in order to reveal an ever-shifting preoccupation with autonomy. Drawing on Bourdieu's sociology, formalist reading, and historical contextualization, this book demonstrates the importance of autonomy to modernist themes as varied as domestic service, artistic aging, expat life, and non-referentiality. Nothing less than an argument for a wholesale revision of the assumptions of modernist studies, Fictions of Autonomy is also an intervention in literary theory. This book shows why anyone interested in literary history, the sociology of culture, and aesthetics needs to take account of the social, stylistic, and political significance of the problem, and the potential, of autonomy.

Fiction --- anno 1900-1999 --- Aestheticism (Literature) --- Autonomie (Filosofie) --- Autonomie (Philosophie) --- Autonomy (Philosophy) --- Estheticisme (Literatuur) --- Esthéticisme (Littérature) --- Modernism (Literature) --- Modernisme (Literatuur) --- Modernisme (Littérature) --- Zelfbepaling (Filosofie) --- Littérature occidentale --- Modernisme (littérature) --- Autonomie (philosophie) --- Literature, Modern --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Modernism (Literature). --- Autonomy (Philosophy). --- Aestheticism (Literature). --- Crepuscolari --- Crepuscolarismo --- Crépusculaires (Poètes) --- Crépuscularisme --- Penumbrismo --- Poètes crépusculaires --- Poésie crépusculaire --- Poésie pénombriste --- Pénombrisme --- Literature [Modern ] --- 20th century --- Eliot, Thomas Stearns --- Criticism and interpretation --- Barnes, Djuna --- Stevens, Wallace --- James, Henry --- Littérature occidentale --- Modernisme (littérature) --- Théorie, etc.

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Femmes tsiganes --- Femmes tsiganes dans la littérature --- Bohemianism in literature --- Vie de bohème dans la littérature --- Bohemianism in art --- Femmes tsiganes dans l'art --- Vie de bohème dans l'art --- Poetry --- Thematology --- French literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Littérature occidentale --- Women in literature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Women in art --- Femmes dans l'art --- Dans la littérature --- Dans l'art --- Thèmes, motifs --- Femmes tsiganes dans la littérature --- Vie de bohème dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Vie de bohème dans l'art --- Dans la littérature. --- Dans l'art. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Littérature occidentale