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Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy

African Feminism: Old Wine in a New Wine Bottle?African Feminism: A Short Historical Sketch The Weaknesses of African Feminist Theory Female Subjectivity and African Feminist Discourse Empathy: Making Sense of a Concept Human Rights and Literature Narratives, Privilege, and the Pain of Other People African Women’s Narratives and Feminist Empathy Notes Feminism as Fairness We Should All Be Feminists John Rawls and the Original Position Why Does Society Hate My Body?Narrating Justice and Fairness Guilt and the Search for Justice Agent-Regret as Necessary for Fairness Imagining Human Rights Notes Diary of Intense Pain: The Postcolonial Trap and Women’s Rights The Limits of Postcolonial Criticism Pain and the Challenge of Being an African Woman in the Twenty-first Century Of Pain and the Demand for Empathy Pain, Solidarity, and Search for Community Mugabe Syndrome and the Challenges of Postcoloniality Notes The Body in Pain and the Politics of Culture The Politics of Female Circumcision I Tell of the Body in Pain Bodily Pain as a Trope for Existential Pain Narrative, Empathy, and Community Notes Abstractions as Disablers of Women’s Rights Lola Shoneyin: Polygamy as a Disabling Institution Raising Questions, Raising Awareness Nationalism and Human Rights When Right Means Life Notes The Enslaved Body as a Symbol of Universal Human Rights Abuse Slavery as a Metaphor of Abuse of Human Rights Dreams as an Expression of Human Rights Women in Search of Lost Dignity Historical Consciousness and Human Rights Conclusion: The Rights of One Are the Rights of All Notes Human Rights as Liberatory Social Thought Human Rights as Social Thought Violence and the Curse of Silence As the Family Goes, So Does the Nation How to Liberate an Oppressed Society Solidarity as an Exercise in Empathy Notes The Obligation to Bear Testimony to Human Rights Abuses Stories and the Ethics of Testimony Jabbeh Wesley’s Poetics of Attention The Silence the Dead Refuse to Take Remembering as Confronting Meaninglessness Notes Bibliography

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