To die with dignity. An approach to Human Rights based on two Latin American novels

Authors

  • Malvina Guaraglia Pozzo Departamento de Literatura Latinoamericana, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i22.371

Abstract

The article advances the possibility of reading Human Rights from a cultural perspective, making emphasis on their ethical dimension, and as tools for the construction of political and social identities. From this standpoint, and also from a new field of research, it proposes the existence of a long genealogy of social criticism texts that have articulated the ethical principles of Human Rights in national public spaces of Latin American societies. Also, through the exemplary study of two novels, the articles study the rhetoric strategies that may be on the basis of that articulation.

Author Biography

Malvina Guaraglia Pozzo, Departamento de Literatura Latinoamericana, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Dpto. de Literatura Latinoamericana y Uruguaya, Docente Efectiva. 

Doctora en Letras por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Profesora de Literatura

Durante los años 2015 y 2016 integró el proyecto de investigación Raíces Latinoamericanas de los derechos humanos: la literatura como fuente, subvencionado por la Comisión Sectorial de Investigaciones Científicas. 

Publicaciones: 

-Derechos humanos, cultura y literatura. Un ejemplo en la narrativa de denuncia social latinoamericana, Revista Latinoamericana de derechos humanos, aceptado para publicación 04/10/2017.

-Raíces latinoamericanas de los derechos humanos, Actas de las Jornadas Académicas "Raíces latinoamericanas de los derechos humanos", 3 y 4 de Noviembre, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Montevideo, Uruguay [en prensa]

-Literatura y pensamiento político. La construcción del "pueblo" en la narrativa de denuncia social latinoamericana (1925-1970), Madrid, CSIC, 2012. 

 

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2018-07-11

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Guaraglia Pozzo, M. (2018). To die with dignity. An approach to Human Rights based on two Latin American novels. Valenciana, (22), 53–80. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i22.371

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No. 22 (2018): Núm. 22 julio-diciembre 2018

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