Middlebury

CMLT0248A-S23

Human Rights &World Literature
Please register via ENGL 0248A

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)/
Course Reference Number (CRN):
22403
Subject Code:
CMLT
Course Number:
0248
Section Identifier:
A

Course

CMLT 0248

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Spring 2023

CMLT0248A-S23 Lecture (Graves)