Writing and Righting
Writing and Righting A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times.The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights…
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Writing and Righting
A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times.The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. In this short polemical book, Lyndsey Stonebridge shows how the history of human rights owes much to the creative imagining of writers. But what is the real connection between literature and human rights?
Yet, she argues, it is not enough to claim that literature is the empathetic wing of the human rights movement.� At a time when human rights are so blatantly under attack, the writers we need how are the political truthtellers, the bold callers out of easy sympathy and comfortable