Description
| Product ID: | 9780198814054 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Writing and Righting |
| Subtitle: | Literature in the Age of Human Rights |
| Authors: | Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Ethical issues and debates, Human rights, civil rights, Civics and citizenship, Ethical issues & debates, Human rights, Civil rights & citizenship |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Lyndsey Stonebridge presents a new way to think about the relationship between literature and human rights that challenges the idea that empathy inspires action. A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times.The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and human rights? In this short polemical book, Lyndsey Stonebridge shows how the history of human rights owes much to the creative imagining of writers. Yet, she argues, it is not enough to claim that literature is the empathetic wing of the human rights movement. At a time when human rights are so blatantly under attack, the writers we need how are the political truthtellers, the bold callers out of easy sympathy and comfortable platitudes. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-11-26 |
