Human Rights and Latin American Cultural Studies
Ed. Ana Forcinito and Fernando Ordóñez
Contents
Introduction
Ana Forcinito and Fernando Ordóñez
Part I: Theoretical and Philosophical Issues
Chapter 1
An Aesthetic Approach to Issues of Human Rights
Hernán Vidal
Chapter 2
Densely Woven Skeins: When Literature is a Practice of Human Rights
Amy Kaminsky
Chapter 3
Skeletons in the Closet? Approaching Human Rights from Culture
Gustavo Remedi
Part II: Juridical Perspectives
Chapter 4
The Citizens' Testament and the Necessary Risks of Truth: Accounts Pending in Contemporary Uruguay
Gerardo Caetano
Chapter 5
The Right to Truth in the Recent History of Argentina
Jorge Montes
Chapter 6
The Human Rights Factor in United States Immigration Policies
Hector A. Reyes
Part III: Cultural Manifestations of Human Rights Issues
Chapter 7
The Subaltern War Machine: Women, War and Rights
Jean Franco
Chapter 8
Absent Causes, or el secreto a voces
Doris Sommer
Chapter 9
Torture and Nation: A Diachronic Map of Argentine Violence
Alejandro Solomianski
Chapter 10
The Knowledge that Comes from Seeing: Yuyanapaq and the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Margarita Saona
Chapter 11
Fed by Any Means Necessary: Omnivorous Negritude and the Transnational Semiotics of Afro-Colombian Blackness in the Work of Liliana Angulo
Corey Shouse Tourino
Chapter 12
Human Rights and Academic Discourse: Teaching Las Casas-Sepúlveda's Debate at the Time of the Iraq War
Raúl Marrero-Fente
Afterword
David William Foster