Human Rights and Latin American Cultural Studies
Ed. Ana Forcinito and Fernando Ordóñez
Introduction
Ana Forcinito and Fernando Ordóñez
Part 1: 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 2: Juridical Perspectives
4. The Citizens' Testament and the Necessary Risks of Truth: Accounts Pending in Contemporary Uruguay
Gerardo Caetano
5. The Right to Truth in the Recent History of Argentina
Jorge Montes
6. The Human Rights Factor in United States Immigration Policies
Hector A. Reyes
Part 3: Cultural Manifestations of Human Rights Issues
7. The Subaltern War Machine: Women, War and Rights
Jean Franco
8. Absent Causes, or el secreto a voces
Doris Sommer
9. Torture and Nation: A Diachronic Map of Argentine Violence
Alejandro Solomianski
10. The Knowledge that Comes from Seeing: Yuyanapaq and the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Margarita Saona
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
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