Foreword / Marjorie Agosin -- Charting new courses : teaching human rights in literary and cultural studies / Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg -- Losses of human rights in the literature classroom / Greg A. Mullins -- Human rights and the tautology of human being / Crystal Parikh and Nicholas Matlin -- Teaching the legal imperialism debate over human rights / Elizabeth S. Anker -- Human rights cultures and traditions: beyond the post-/colonial and the west / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore -- On the history of human rights before 1948 / Sarah Winter -- Mapping African American literature and human rights / Ira Dworkin -- Representing China and Asia : translating outside in "the rights machine" / Manav Ratti -- Between official stories and coerced confessions : testimonio and storytelling in Latin America / Sophia A. McClennen -- Revisiting the visitor : rhetoric, ethics, and feminist models of interpretation / Eve Wiederhold -- Linking economic justice and women's human rights : feminist approaches for the human rights literature classroom / Heather Hewett -- Engaging the literature and film of female genital mutilation in the undergraduate classroom / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez -- Sexual orientation and human rights : walking with shadows in Nigeria / Neville Hoad -- On teaching the close reading of torture literature : an approximation / Karen Elizabeth Bishop -- Cultivating the translocal citizen witness : contemporary human rights poetry as "remembrance/pedagogy" / Brenda Carr Vellino -- Reconstituting community, identity, and belonging : classroom encounters with postconflict texts / Susan Spearey -- Empirical ethics, theoretical mechanics : toward a prosaics of teaching human rights literature / Kimberly A. Nance -- Locating difference : addressing student expectations in the human rights and literature classroom / Alexander Hartwiger -- Rhetorical approaches to teaching human rights : the pedagogy of speak truth to power / Belinda Walzer -- Cultivating the dialogic subject of human rights pedagogy / Ryan Omizo and Wendy S. Hesford -- Teaching human rights in the composition classroom : engaging students through common curricula / Erik Juergensmeyer and Bridget Irish -- Reading culture and writing rights / Lisa Eck and Ben Alberti -- Experiencing form : service learning in the literature of human rights classroom / Marike Janzen -- The rickety bridge : prisoners and human rights in the literature classroom / Megan Sweeney -- Resources / Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Belinda Walzer -- Afterword : human rights formalism / James Dawes.

"Offers pedagogical techniques and syllabus suggestions for incorporating human rights issues into the college classroom. Includes information on legal imperialism; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; testimonio; gender; feminism; female genital mutilation; remembrance; social justice; torture; postcolonialism; loss; trauma; economic rights; law; sexuality; the other; racism; cultural encounters; composition; prisons"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.