Human Rights and the Knowing Subaltern: The God of Small Things ? A Case Study (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

Human rights are politicised and cannot realistically be said to exist only to protect the weak from abuse, being co-opted as an instrument through which the politics of power is advanced. Despite human rights becoming increasingly widespread, the omnipresence of human rights rhetoric has not been very clear, and the meaning of the language of human rights has become confused and contested. ?Everyone should know why human rights are important, that we do need little human rights just now, and that literature does have a capacity to minister to that need,? says Joseph Slaughter in his book, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form and International Law (2007). It is important to understand the nuances of human rights. It has been defined a

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