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02840aam a22004578i 4500 001 B8768988C6D111E8B1BC915097128E48 003 SILO 005 20181003010030 008 180122s2018 mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018001853 020 $a 067498644X 020 $a 9780674986442 035 $a (OCoLC)1022976600 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a P302 $b .D33 2018 082 00 $a 809.3/93582 $2 23 100 1 $a Dawes, James, $d 1969- $e author. 245 14 $a The novel of human rights / $c James Dawes. 263 $a 1810 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a 232 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a This book identifies the centers of aesthetic gravity that pull texts together into a new genre: namely, the novel of human rights. What connective structures and recurring concerns can be discerned at this early stage in the development of the genre? How do its ethical pressures generate formal patterns and, in turn, how do its formal patterns generate ethical pressures? And finally, since both the textual and political forms are rapidly evolving, what can this rising genre teach us about the near futures of literature and literary studies? While rigorously attending to form, The Novel of Human Rights addresses the key developments and debates of the contemporary human rights movement, revealing how human rights work has shaped the aesthetic concerns of novelists and how those same aesthetic concerns have affected human rights work. Writers of interest span a wide range, countable in the dozens. Some of those who receive extended attention include John Edgar Wideman, Susan Choi, Dave Eggers, Francisco Goldman, and Edwidge Danticat.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The US novel of human rights -- The central features of the novel of human rights -- Ethical concerns in the novel of human rights -- Perpetrators in the novel of human rights. 650 0 $a Discourse analysis, Literary $z United States. 650 0 $a Human rights in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and morals $z United States. 650 0 $a Fiction genres. 650 0 $a Aesthetics. 650 7 $a Aesthetics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00798702 650 7 $a Discourse analysis, Literary. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894944 650 7 $a Fiction genres. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00923772 650 7 $a Human rights in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00963350 650 7 $a Literature and morals. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000085 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20181003011937.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B8768988C6D111E8B1BC915097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search