This book bridges international human rights law and literary studies by examining dystopian novels through the lens of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The author analyses classical dystopias and a selection of feminist dystopias, exploring depictions of human rights violations and gender-based discrimination in fiction. The book deconstructs dystopian societies, revealing mechanisms of oppression and highlighting literature's legal and social relevance. Structured like legal commentaries, it offers both theoretical and practical analyses of UDHR provisions. Each article is…mehr
This book bridges international human rights law and literary studies by examining dystopian novels through the lens of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The author analyses classical dystopias and a selection of feminist dystopias, exploring depictions of human rights violations and gender-based discrimination in fiction. The book deconstructs dystopian societies, revealing mechanisms of oppression and highlighting literature's legal and social relevance. Structured like legal commentaries, it offers both theoretical and practical analyses of UDHR provisions. Each article is discussed and interpreted in accordance with legal scholarship and linked to cases drawn from dystopian literature.
Katarzyna Ginszt, Ph.D., works in the Department of English and American Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (Poland). Her academic interests include dystopian literature and film, law and literature, human rights, and the law of new technologies. She has published on European and American fiction and law.
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Introduction: The Preamble
Chapter 1: Utopia, Law and the Parallel
Chapter 2: The Principles of Human Rights: Classical and Feminist Dystopias
Chapter 3: The Fundamental Rights of an Individual: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Red Clocks
Chapter 4: The Rights of an Individual in Civil and Political Society as well as Spiritual, Public and Political Freedoms: Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale
Chapter 5: Social, Economic and Cultural Rights: We and Parable of the Sower
Chapter 6: General Means of Exercising Human Rights: Classical and Feminist Dystopias
Conclusion: Transcending the Boundaries of Fiction
Chapter 2: The Principles of Human Rights: Classical and Feminist Dystopias
Chapter 3: The Fundamental Rights of an Individual: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Red Clocks
Chapter 4: The Rights of an Individual in Civil and Political Society as well as Spiritual, Public and Political Freedoms: Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale
Chapter 5: Social, Economic and Cultural Rights: We and Parable of the Sower
Chapter 6: General Means of Exercising Human Rights: Classical and Feminist Dystopias
Conclusion: Transcending the Boundaries of Fiction
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