Description: "Offers pedagogical techniques and syllabus suggestions for incorporating human rights issues into the college classroom. Includes information on legal imperialism; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; testimonio; gender; feminism; female genital mutilation; remembrance; social justice; torture; postcolonialism; loss; trauma; economic rights; law; sexuality; the other; racism; cultural encounters; composition; prisons"--
Brief description:
Alexandra Schultheis Moore is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the author of Regenerative Fiction: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family and editor, with Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, of Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature and, with Goldberg and Greg Mullins, of a special issue of College Literature on human rights and cultural forms.
Review Quotes:
"The time for human rights and literature has clearly come. In this field, Goldberg and Moore are among the most qualified to edit a volume for the MLA Options for Teaching series. The collection will help to expand thinking--and questions--about these interdisciplinary studies." --Domna Stanton, Graduate Center, City University of New York