ENGL 0248A
Human Rights &World Literature
Human Rights and World Literature
In this course we will explore the idiom of human rights in law, literature, and political culture. We will place literary representations of human rights violations (genocide, torture, detention and forced labor, environmental devastation, police violence) in dialogue with official human rights treaties and declarations in order to historicize and critique the assumptions of human rights discourse. Who qualifies as a “human” deserving of humanitarian intervention? How do human rights rehearse a colonial dynamic based on racial and geo-political privilege? To answer these questions we will turn to some of the most controversial voices in global fiction and poetry. 3 hrs. lect. (not open to students who have taken ENAM 0230)
(Diversity) (Formerly ENAM 0248)
- Schedule
- 9:45am-11:00am on Monday, Wednesday (Feb 13, 2023 to May 15, 2023)
- Location
- Warner Hall 011
- Instructors
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Graves, Benjamin
benjaming@middlebury.edu
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