Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature

Contents

q Contents Acknowledgments vii introduction: constructs by Which We live 1 1. Bodily integrity and its exclusions 15 2. embodying Human rights: toward a Phenomenology of social Justice 47 3. constituting the liberal subject of rights: salman rushdie’s Midnight’s Children 79 4. Women’s rights and the lure of self-Determination in nawal el saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero 115 5. J. M. coetzee’s Disgrace: the rights of Desire and the embodied lives of Animals 149 6. Arundhati roy’s “return to the things themselves”: Phenomenology and the challenge of Justice 186 coda: small Places, close to Home 220 Notes 225 Works Cited 243 Index 259 ...