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Human Rights, Human Wrongs: literatures of captivity

Informed by his extensive writing on ethics in literature and on African prison narratives, Woods’ principal contribution is the theoretical structure that places the literary analysis within Rorty’s philosophical ideas concerning human rights, wider references to world literatures, and the general framework of theoretical discussions of the relation of aesthetics to ethics. Building on her Asian American literary-culture expertise, particularly in life-writing narratives about the traumatic impact of imprisonment and conflict, Grice’s distinctive contribution is the Korean literary and cultural case-study material, and the ways in which life-writing opens a discursive space for the exploration of what constitutes human rights.