Abstract

GUARAGLIA POZZO, Malvina. To die with dignity. An approach to Human Rights based on two Latin American novels. Valenciana [online]. 2018, vol.11, n.22, pp.53-79. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i22.371.

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 rhetorics trategies that may be on the basis of that articulation.

Keywords : Human Rights; Latin American literature; Narrative of social criticism; Subaltern subjects; Subjects of rights.

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