Beschreibung:
This book responds to the failures of human rights through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can expose human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Drawing on vulnerability theory, Moore develops a transnational feminist praxis for reading human rights and their violations in contemporary literary and visual culture in five (post-)colonial and transnational contexts. Moore demonstrates that the twinned discourses of precarity and security may open up readings of human rights claims that are, at once, embodied and shareable, and at the same time are themselves vulnerable to cooptation.
Introduction: Human Rights in Precarious Times 1. Spectrally Human: African Child Soldier Narratives at the Limits of Legal Personhood 2. Disturbing the Archive: Human Rights Storytelling of Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi 3. Overexposed: Compounded Vulnerability and Continuing Liability in Fiction of Bhopal 4. Re-purposing Témoignage: Humanitarian Spaces and Subjects in Photo/Graphic Narratives of Médecins Sans Frontières 5. In the Aftermath of Mass Murder: Visuality and Vertigo in the Indonesia Films of Joshua Oppenheimer