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<p>Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. In Fictions of Dignity, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that help

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Author

Elizabeth S Anker; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Ithaca: Cornell University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801451362

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Political Science, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25