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Kenya 78 Nov 2015 Presenter MAGAART A Seminar on Democracy Stability amp Rights Bhawana Pokhrel Email bhawanapokhrelyahoocom bhawanapokh7gmailcom Mobile 9856022910 Affiliated institution ID: 460005

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A Seminar on Democracy Stability & RightsKenya 7-8 Nov. 2015

Presenter:

MAGAART: A Seminar on Democracy, Stability & Rights

Bhawana

Pokhrel Email: bhawanapokhrel@yahoo.combhawanapokh7@gmail.com Mobile: 9856022910

Affiliated institution

Tribhuvan UniversityFaculty: Humanities Department: English

7-8 December 2015, KenyaSlide2

We are criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been committed.(50)

Michael

Ondaatje,

Anil’s

Ghost (2003)Slide3

Home and Human Rights in South Asian Migration and Diaspora Literary Discourse

Slide4

South Asian Migration and Diaspora Literary Texts

Diary of the Desert (2011)- Devendra

Bhattrai

Atlantic Street

(2008) - RajabTurtle Nest (2003) - Chandani

LukegeAnil’s Ghost (2000) - Michael OndaatjeA House for Mr

Biswas (1961) - V.S NaipaulSlide5

Discoursing Human Rights Through LiteratureSlide6

Articulation of the Inarticulate…Human rights and literature are intertwined as interdisciplinary studies (Schaffer & Smith 2). [Ref: Article number 19 and 29.]

The UDHR 1948 recognizes the ‘rights of individuals…to challenge unjust state law or oppressive customary practice” (Schaffer and Smith 3).

Individuals have already initiated this process: 1. By telling their stories to human rights advocates.2. By inscribing the issues in the literary works.

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Depiction of HR Issues in Novels…“Novels represent violence; they

do not stop it, not directly at least. In representing violence, they externalize, distance, metaphorize

, and mediate it” ( Khor, 174).

Khor, Lena. Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network: Books Beyond Borders,

2013.Slide8

Textual Extract/s:‘He was frightened’,

Savi said. ‘To do what?’‘Frightened to ask. Teacher

permission to leave the room. And when he leave the room he was frightened again. Frightened to use the school WC.

[. . . ] Anand Cried.

‘He went back to the class room and Teacher ask him to leave.’‘Well just then school was over and everybody walk behind Anand. Everybody was laughing.’ (245)

(A House for Mr Biswas 1961)Slide9

Extract/s from the Texts:Last year, while connecting an electric wire, he fell of a ladder and got his right leg fractured then started his misfortunate days.

Neither his leg was cured nor he got the salary of last six months. Then he went to labour court at the advice of the embassy. When he went to the court, the ‘

Syriyali’ owner not only beat him badly, but at night, also physically assaulted him to near death (45).

(

Diary of Desert 2011)Slide10

Extract/s from the Texts:. . . It was the freshness of the body

. It was still someone. Usually the victims of a political killing were found much later. She dipped each of the fingers in a beaker of blue solution so she could check for cuts and

abrasions. (9) Anil’s Ghost

2000Slide11

Why Are These Implications in Literature?What difference, if any, can literature make through its intervention in the realm of human rights (especially when the cases are universal as depicted in South Asian Migration and

diasporta texts/settings)?Slide12

Double Bind? Or a Debate?! In giving voice to suffering we can sometime

moderate it, even aestheticize. “When it is

transfigured, something of its horror is removed. This alone does an

injustice to the victim.” Indeed, giving voice can also be the matter of

taking voice. (Intd.8) Dawes , James. That the World May Know (2007).Slide13

Telling the Stories OR Staying Silent in Respect?!What are the consequences of respectful silence

? There are so many ways to hurt others when trying to speak for them, so many and so unexpected. But is doing nothing worse than risking something?

(Dawes, 9)Slide14

Impotence to Importance of Story Telling…Much of the work on storytelling and human rights, has focused on the impotence of representation

. However, one of the most important premises of contemporary human rights work is that effective dissemination of information can change the world. [ . . .] (9-10)

Dawes, James. “What Difference Does Storytelling Make?” (2007)Slide15

Hope…Solidarity…Countering all of these fears is the hope (recognizable sometimes only as the shadow of hope) that

literature can, by expressing something true, participate in- or at the very least, act in solidarity with – the work of human rights

. (Dawes , 218)Slide16

Roles that Academia, Social Sciences and Literature Can Play for the Promotion of Human Rights:The academic disciplines ought to work together not only to

diagnose problems, but also to improve the human condition [ . . . ]. This objective can also be achieved by gearing academic work toward the realization of human rights in the real world.

(xvii)

Frezzo, Mark. The Sociology of Human Rights (2015)Slide17

References:

Bal, Mieke.

Travelling Concepts in the Humanities. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1993. PrintBhattarai,

Devendra. The Diary of the Desert.

Ratna Pustak Bhandar: Kathmandu, 2010.Dawes, James. That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity

. Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press, macquillan, martin. ed. The narrative reader.London: Routlege, 2000.Goldberg Elizabeth Swanson and Alexandra

Schultheis Moor. Eds. Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature. London/NY: Routledge, 2007. Print.Freeman, Michael. Human Rights:An Interdisciplinary Approach. 2nd ed.Cambridge: Ploity Press, 2011. Print.

Frezzo, Mark. The Sociology of Human Rights.

Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015. Print

Ishay

,

Micheine

R.

The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era

. Berkley: U of California P, 2004.

Naipaul, V.S.

A House for

Mr

Biswas

.

London: Picador, 2003.Slide18

References:

Ondaatje, Michael . Anil’s Ghost . London: Bloomsbury, 2000.

Peerenboom, Randall, Carole J. Peterson and Albert H.Y. Chen. Eds.

Human Rights In Asia. Abingdon/London: Routledge

, 2006.Peters, Julia Stone. “ Literature, the Rights of Man, and Narratives of Atrocity: Historical Backgrounds to the Culture of Testimony”. The Yale Journal of Law and Humanities. l7 :2 (201)3. Web. 28 Feb 2015.

Rajab. Atlantic Street. Kathmandu: Bibek Sirjanshil Prakashan

, 2065. PrintScahffer, Kay and Sidonie Smith. Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2004. Print.Slaughter, Joseph R. Human Rights, Inc. The World Novel, Narrative Form and International Law. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.Slide19

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