Literature, Human Rights and the Cold War

Andrew Hammond

doi:10.1017/9781108698511.004

Literature, Human Rights and the Cold War

Andrew Hammond

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Despite the ambitions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948, the establishment of global justice and freedom made little progress over the following four decades. One of the results was a significant strand of Cold War literature that documented the brutalising effects of industrialisation, totalitarianism and superpower interventionism and that advocated for those who, still marginalised by class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, felt excluded from the UDHR's conception of a common humanity. Taking up many of these themes, this essay analyses human rights literature from around the world, including examples of autobiographical testimony, political fiction, postcolonial poetry, dystopian drama and postmodernist fiction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
Editors	Crystal Parikh
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	3
Pages	42-57
ISBN (Print)	9781108698511
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108698511.004
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2019

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