TY - CHAP
T1 - Literature, Human Rights and the Cold War
AU - Hammond, Andrew
N1 - This material has been published in The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature edited by Crystal Parikh http://doi.org/10.1017/9781108698511. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use. © Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - Despite the ambitions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948, the establishment of global justice and freedom made little progress over the following four decades. One of the results was a significant strand of Cold War literature that documented the brutalising effects of industrialisation, totalitarianism and superpower interventionism and that advocated for those who, still marginalised by class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, felt excluded from the UDHR's conception of a common humanity. Taking up many of these themes, this essay analyses human rights literature from around the world, including examples of autobiographical testimony, political fiction, postcolonial poetry, dystopian drama and postmodernist fiction.
AB - Despite the ambitions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948, the establishment of global justice and freedom made little progress over the following four decades. One of the results was a significant strand of Cold War literature that documented the brutalising effects of industrialisation, totalitarianism and superpower interventionism and that advocated for those who, still marginalised by class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, felt excluded from the UDHR's conception of a common humanity. Taking up many of these themes, this essay analyses human rights literature from around the world, including examples of autobiographical testimony, political fiction, postcolonial poetry, dystopian drama and postmodernist fiction.
U2 - 10.1017/9781108698511.004
DO - 10.1017/9781108698511.004
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781108698511
T3 - Cambridge Companions
SP - 42
EP - 57
BT - The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
A2 - Parikh, Crystal
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge
ER -
