Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age

Kanishka Chowdhury is Professor of English and Director of the Program in American Culture and Difference at the University of St. Thomas, MN, USA. His first book, The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011.

• 1. Introduction: Reading Rights Discourse in a Transnational Economy.- 2. Historicizing Rights Discourse Post-9/11.- 3. Workers' Rights, Exploitation, and the Transactional Moment.- 4. Gender Rights and the Politics of Empowerment.- 5. "Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us": Rights Discourse, the State, and Toxic Capitalism in Indra Sinha's Animal's People.- 6. Refugees' Rights: Capital, Óscar Martínez’s The Beast, Gianfranco Rosi’s Fuocoammare, and the “Problem” of the Surplus Population.- 7. Conclusion.