Human Rights in Dystopian Novels

A Literary Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Katarzyna Ginszt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2025
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-93487-6 (ISBN)

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This book bridges international human rights law and literary studies by examining dystopian novels through the lens of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The author analyses classical dystopias and a selection of feminist dystopias, exploring depictions of human rights violations and gender-based discrimination in fiction. The book deconstructs dystopian societies, revealing mechanisms of oppression and highlighting literature’s legal and social relevance. Structured like legal commentaries, it offers both theoretical and practical analyses of UDHR provisions. Each article is discussed and interpreted in accordance with legal scholarship and linked to cases drawn from dystopian literature.

Katarzyna Ginszt, Ph.D., works in the Department of English and American Studies at Maria Curie-Sk³odowska University, Lublin (Poland). Her academic interests include dystopia in literature and film, law and literature, human rights, and the law of new technologies. She has published on British and American fiction and law.

Introduction: The Preamble

Chapter 1: Utopia, Law and the Parallel

Chapter 2: The Principles of Human Rights: Classical and Feminist Dystopias

Chapter 3: The Fundamental Rights of an Individual: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Red Clocks

Chapter 4: The Rights of an Individual in Civil and Political Society as well as Spiritual, Public and Political Freedoms: Brave New World and The Handmaid’s Tale

Chapter 5: Social, Economic and Cultural Rights: We and Parable of the Sower

Chapter 6: General Means of Exercising Human Rights: Classical and Feminist Dystopias

Conclusion: Transcending the Boundaries of Fiction

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Mediated Fictions ; 21
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	444 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
Schlagworte	Blaim • classical dystopia • Commentary • Comparative Literature • declaration • Dystopia • dystopian • feminist dystopia • Fundamental Rights • Ginszt • Gruszewska • Human • Human Rights • Human Rights Violations • Individual Rights • International Law • Katarzyna • Literary • Ludmila • Novels • rights • Rights and Freedoms • Speculative Fiction • Universal • Women’s rights
ISBN-10	3-631-93487-4 / 3631934874
ISBN-13	978-3-631-93487-6 / 9783631934876
Zustand	Neuware