Human rights and literature: an emerging meeting space between law and literature in the North American tradition
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https://doi.org/10.21119/anamps.31.5-24Keywords:
human rights, literature, criticismAbstract
One of the particular characteristics of the interdisciplinary law and literature movement, which sets it apart from the large number of law and literature movements that proliferated during the sixties and seventies in the American academy that saw it born, is the migration of concern in examining the intersections and limitations between the two, from a legal starting point to the field of literary studies called Literature and Human Rights. This paper proposes to examine such migration in the context of the North American tradition, and to analyze the the forms that it assumes and its critical potentialities.Downloads
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