Contents Foreword, Joseph R. Slaughter Acknowledgments Introduction Human Rights and Literature: The Development of an Interdiscipline, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore I. Histories, Imaginaries, and Paradoxes of Literature and Human Rights 1: "Literature," the "Rights of Man," and Narratives of Atrocity: Historical Backgrounds to the Culture of Testimony, Julie Stone Peters 2: Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects: The Bildungsroman and International Human Rights Law, Joseph R. Slaughter 3: Top Down, Bottom Up, Horizontally: Resignifying the Universal in Human Rights Discourse, Domna C. Stanton 4: Literature, the Social Imaginary and Human Rights, Meili Steele 5: Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and the Indivisibility of Human Rights, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg 6: Paradoxes of Neoliberalism and Human Rights, Greg Mullins II. Questions of Narration, Representation, and Evidence 7: Reading the Living Archives: The Witness of Literary Art, Carolyn Forché 8: Narrating Human Rights and the Limits of Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown, Elizabeth S. Anker 9: Complicities of Transnational Witnessing in Joe Sacco’s Palestine, Wendy Kozol 10: Dark Chamber, Colonial Scene: Post-9/11 Torture and Representation, Stephanie Athey III. Rethinking the 'Subject’ of Human Rights 11: Human Rights as Violence and Enigma: Can Literature Really Be of Any Help with the Politics of Human Rights?, Nick Mansfield 12: Imagining Women as Human, Hephzibah Roskelly 13: "Disaster Capitalism" and Human Rights: Indra Embodiment and Subalternity in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, Alexandra Schultheis Moore 14: Do Human Rights Need a Self? Buddhist Literature and the Samsaric Subject, Gregory Price Grieve IV. Epilogue Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore