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"The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: - subjects, with pieces on subjectivity, humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body; - forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the oral; - contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events; - impacts, considering the power and limits of human rights literature, rhetoric, and visual culture. Drawn from many different global contexts, the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in new directions for future scholarship" --

Intro -- A Companion to the Global Renaissance -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: The Global Renaissance -- Part I: Mapping the Global -- 1. The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser's Mammon -- 2. "Travailing" Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject -- 3. Islam and Tamburlaine's World-Picture -- 4. Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period -- 5. Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia -- Part II: "Contact Zones" -- 6. "Apes of Imitation": Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to India -- 7. Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer -- 8. Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley's Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608-1611 -- 9. Becoming Mughal, Becoming Dom João de Távora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges -- 10. The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns -- 11. The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire -- 12. The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan -- 13. Placing Iceland -- 14. East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553-1603 -- 15. Connected Political Imaginaries: The Shaˉhnaˉmah and Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599-1628 -- Part III: "To Live by Traffic": Global Networks of Exchange -- 16. The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India -- 17. Hakluyt's Books and Hawkins' Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560-1600.

The new world literature : literary studies discovers globalization -- The world according to Hegel : culture and power in world history -- The world as market : the materialist inversion of spiritualist models of the world -- Worlding : the phenomenological concept of worldliness and the loss of world in modernity -- The in-between world : anthropologizing the force of worlding -- The arriving world : the inhuman otherness of time as real messianic hope -- Postcolonial openings : how postcolonial literature becomes world literature -- Projecting a future world from the memory of precolonial time -- World heritage preservation and the expropriation of subaltern worlds -- Resisting humanitarianization -- Epilogue without conclusion : Stories without end(s)

"The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: - subjects, with pieces on subjectivity, humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body; - forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the oral; - contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events; - impacts, considering the power and limits of human rights literature, rhetoric, and visual culture. Drawn from many different global contexts, the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in new directions for future scholarship" --

This book, first published in 1977, begins with a close look at the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers, and at the problems of their profession. It then examines their environment in its broader aspects, the Russian empire being considered from the point of view of geography, ethnography, economics, and the impact of individual Tsars on writers and society. A discussion of the main social estates' follows, and concluding is an analysis in their literary context of the activities of the competing forces of cohesion and disruption in imperial society: the civil service, law courts, police, army, schools, universities, press, censorship, revolutionaries and agitators. This book makes possible a fuller understanding of the works of Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov and the other great Russian writers.