Foreword: Rights on paper / Joseph R. Slaughter
Introduction: Human rights and literature: the development of an interdiscipline / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore
"Literature," the "rights of man," and narratives of atrocity: historical backgrounds to the culture of testimony / Julie Stone Peters
Enabling fictions and novel subjects: the bildungsroman and international human rights law / Joseph R. Slaughter
Top down, bottom up, horizontally: resignifying the universal in human rights discourse / Domna C. Stanton
The social imaginary as a problematic for human rights / Meili Steele
Intimations of what was to come: Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones and the indivisibility of human rights / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
Paradoxes of neoliberalism and human rights / Greg Mullins
Reading the living archives: the witness of literary art / Carolyn Forché
Narrating human rights and the limits of magic realism in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the clown / Elizabeth S. Anker
Complicities of witnessing in Joe Sacco's Palestine / Wendy Kozol
Dark chamber, colonial scene: post-9/11 torture and representation / Stephanie Athey
Human rights as violence and enigma: can literature really be of any help with the politics of human rights? / Nick Mansfield
Imagining women as human / Hephzibah Roskelly
"Disaster capitalism" and human rights: embodiment and subalternity in Indra Sinha's Animal's people / Alexandra Schultheis Moore
Do human rights need a self? Buddhist literature and the samsaric subject / Gregory Price Grieve
Epilogue / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore.
