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020 _a9781032908816
_q(hardback)
020 _a9781032908823
_q(paperback)
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_q(ebook)
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040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
050 0 0 _aPN3383.P64
_bR495 2025
100 1 _aRickel, Jennifer,
_d1982-
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe rights war in literature and culture :
_bfrom literary humanitarianism to savior victimism /
_cJennifer Rickel.
300 _avolumes cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aRoutledge literary studies in social justice
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"Rights War tracks how the human rights framework is weaponized against the oppressed, and it makes the case for the central place of literature in understanding this seizure of narrative control. While literary humanitarianism depoliticizes suffering and positions the reader as savior to traumatized Others, Rights War shows how contemporary fiction by women of color and Queer writers across the African diaspora engage innovative narrative paradigms to address structural inequities. It analyzes strategies set out in this literature for disarming savior victimism, which it identifies as a pernicious cultural phenomenon in which the powerful proclaim themselves saviors to and victims of those they marginalize. As the disassociation of national rights from international human rights and the disconnection of civil and political rights from social and economic rights provoke a contest of victimhood, this book offers a renewed argument for the indivisibility of rights and the social justice function of literature"--
650 0 _aPoint of view (Literature)
650 0 _aFiction
_xTechnique.
650 0 _aNarration (Rhetoric)
650 0 _aEquality in literature.
650 0 _aFiction
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aFiction
_xMinority authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aFiction
_y21st century
_xHistory and criticism.
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