Ed. Ana Forcinito and Fernando Ordóñez

Introduction
Ana Forcinito and Fernando Ordóñez

Part I: Theoretical and Philosophical Issues

1. An Aesthetic Approach to Issues of Human Rights
   Hernán Vidal
2. Densely Woven Skeins: When Literature is a Practice of Human Rights
   Amy Kaminsky
3. Skeletons in the Closet? Approaching Human Rights from Culture
   Gustavo Remedi

Part II: Juridical Perspectives

1. The Citizens' Testament and the Necessary Risks of Truth: Accounts Pending in Contemporary Uruguay
   Gerardo Caetano
2. The Right to Truth in the Recent History of Argentina
   Jorge Montes
3. The Human Rights Factor in United States Immigration Policies
   Hector A. Reyes

Part III: Cultural Manifestations of Human Rights Issues

1. The Subaltern War Machine: Women, War and Rights
   Jean Franco
2. Absent Causes, or el secreto a voces
   Doris Sommer
3. Torture and Nation: A Diachronic Map of Argentine Violence
   Alejandro Solomianski
4. The Knowledge that Comes from Seeing: Yuyanapaq and the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
   Margarita Saona
5. Fed by Any Means Necessary: Omnivorous Negritude and the Transnational Semiotics of Afro-Colombian Blackness in the Work of Liliana Angulo
   Corey Shouse Tourino
6. 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

Contributors