Middlebury

ENAM0230A-F15

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. (Diversity)/
Course Reference Number (CRN):
92457
Subject Code:
ENAM
Course Number:
0230
Section Identifier:
A

Course

ENAM 0230

All Sections in Fall 2015

Fall 2015

ENAM0230A-F15 Lecture (Graves)