1st Edition
Writing Wrongs The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India
By Pramod K. Nayar
Copyright 2012
216 Pages
by
Routledge India
216 Pages
by
Routledge India
216 Pages
by
Routledge India
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This book examines the ‘cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries.
Moving across multiple media and genres for their representations of Dalits, riot victims, prisoners, abused and abandoned women and children,... Read more
List of Abbreviations. Preface. Acknowledgements 1. Introducing the Culture of Human Rights 2. Atrocity, the Trauma Narrative and the Victim-Subject 3. The Other Victim: The Survivor as Witness and the Work of Testimony 4. The Postcolonial Bildungsroman, ‘Knowing Subalternity’ and the Citizen-Subject 5. Human Rights, Narrative and the Sympathetic Imagination 6. Conclusion: Reading Matters. Bibliography. About the Author. Index
Biography
Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India.
