Description:
Elizabeth S. Anker examines human rights in the narrative imagination and, in the process, makes a compelling case for literature as a uniquely valuable point of entry into theoretical discussions of human rights.
Brief description: Elizabeth S. Anker is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University.
Review Quotes:
Fictions of Dignity is a distinctive contribution to the growing body of scholarship concerned with the relationship between human rights and novels.
--Emily Hogg "New Formations"