Literary Didacticism and Collective Human Rights in US Borderlands: Ana Castillo's 'The Guardians' and Louise Erdrich's 'The Round House'

• Main Author: Szeghi, Tereza M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: eCommons 2018
• Subjects: American Literature; Arts and Humanities; Slaughter; The Guardians; anishina*
• Online Access: https://ecommons.udayton.edu/eng_fac_pub/112; https://ecommons.udayton.edu/context/eng_fac_pub/article/1132/viewcontent/Literary_Didacticism_and_Collective_Human_Rights_in_U.S._Borderlands.pdf

There is now a sizable body of scholarship on the relationship between human rights and literature. James Dawes suggests that the work of human rights is largely a matter of storytelling ("Human Rights in Literary Studies"). Joseph Slaughter contends, in turn, that "literary works and...