Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

29. Narrative and the Human Rights Paradigm

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gold Coast, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

Presiding: Elizabeth Anker, Wake Forest Univ.

1. “Narrative Ambivalence and the Tragic Claims of Human Rights,” Elizabeth Anker

2. “Narrating ‘Women’s Rights as Human Rights’ in Contemporary Feminist Theory and Migration Narratives,” Susan Stanford Friedman, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

3. “Implicated Readers and the Narrative Foundations of an International Human Rights Imaginary,” Joseph R. Slaughter, Columbia Univ.

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