Past present : the literature of human rights in postdictatorial Brazil, Argentina and Chile
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- From an interdisciplinary perspective situated across memory studies, law, and literature, I examine what I define as the literature of human rights in contemporary Latin America: legal and literary narratives with a truth-seeking function vis-à-vis the past that have the potential to impact the present. I analyze narratives from postdictatorial Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, namely truth and reconciliation commission reports and the following fictional narratives: Julián Fuks's A resistência (2016), Alia Trabucco Zerán's La resta (2014), and Selva Almada's Chicas muertas (2015). In each chapter, I interrogate the relevance of concepts such as "truth" and "trust" to memory studies and jurisprudence, as well as their impact on the development of public awareness and discussion—the necessary preconditions for democracy and political change. Considering legal and literary narratives to be part of the activity frameworks that drive social and political change, I explore literature's relevance to human rights and its potential to uncover and examine issues, subjects, and geographic regions that legal systems might exclude
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ward, Callie Elizabeth |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Barletta, Vincent |
| Thesis advisor | Briceño, Ximena |
| Thesis advisor | Meyler, Bernadette |
| Degree committee member | Barletta, Vincent |
| Degree committee member | Briceño, Ximena |
| Degree committee member | Meyler, Bernadette |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Culture |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Callie Ward |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Culture |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yq017zc6963 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Callie Elizabeth Ward
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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