In "Human Rights in Literary Studies," James Dawes claims that “human rights work is, at its heart, a matter of storytelling” (394). He considers the relationship between literary studies and human rights discourse in the article through a series of related paradoxes: beauty, truth, description, suffering, and witnessing.
Respond to the article's claims in 200-500 words, and consider its relationship to the idea of compassionate storytelling as articulated in the TED talk we saw in class:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ryan_lobo_through_the_lens_of_compassion.html
Works Cited
Respond to the article's claims in 200-500 words, and consider its relationship to the idea of compassionate storytelling as articulated in the TED talk we saw in class:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ryan_lobo_through_the_lens_of_compassion.html
Works Cited
Dawes, James. "Human Rights in Literary Studies." Human Rights Quarterly. 31:2 (May 2009). 394-409.
