Literature and human rights: the fight against gender and racial discrimination in the fiction of Buchi Emecheta and Caryl Phillips

dc.contributor.advisorPastourmatzi, Domna
dc.contributor.authorKrack, Christine Laurence
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-02T08:21:29Z
dc.date.available2020-04-02T08:21:29Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionSecond semester University: Aristotle University of Thessalonikien_US
dc.description.abstractThe aim of my thesis is to analyse the contribution of literature to advancing human rights. The role of literature is to make the theoretical concept of human rights less abstract. I chose novels by two internationally acclaimed writers to highlight how literature can function as a medium of social and political protest. In particular, the works chosen depict gender and racial discrimination as on-going human rights violations. By focusing on Second-Class Citizen and In the Ditch by the Nigerian-British writer Buchi Emecheta, I draw attention to the plight of black women in African and British society. By discussing the novels A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow by the Caribbean-British author Caryl Phillips, I highlight the deeply rooted racial prejudice in British society and the reaction of the English people to the contemporary wave of refugees. My objective is to demonstrate that literature reflects human rights abuses and violations, foregrounding at the same time individual suffering. Literature is a space to express the grievances of the marginalised and to assert their human status and dignity. Therefore, it is an ideal forum for political debate and activism.en_US
dc.description.versionEMA awarded thesis 2009/2010. Print publication
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11825/1159
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25330/65
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEMA theses 2009/2010;40
dc.subjecthuman rightsen_US
dc.subjectliteratureen_US
dc.subjectgender discriminationen_US
dc.subjectracial discriminationen_US
dc.titleLiterature and human rights: the fight against gender and racial discrimination in the fiction of Buchi Emecheta and Caryl Phillipsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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