Writing and Righting

Lyndsey Stonebridge is Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her recent books include: Placeless People: Rights, Writing, and Refugees (OUP, 2018), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize, 2019, and The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, 2014. Her other books include The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (with J. Phillip, 1998), The Writing of Anxiety (2007), and British Fiction after Modernism (with M. MacKay, 2007). She is currently collaborating on a creative and interdisciplinary project with refugees and host communities in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, Refugee Hosts. A regular broadcaster and media commentator, she has written for The New Statesman, Prospect, and The New Humanist.

• 1: Introduction: Literature in the Endtimes (?) of Human Rights2: Once More with Feeling3: Experimental Human Rights: Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas4: Words of Fire: Creative Citizenship5: The Bewilderment of Everyday Violence: Shamima Begum, Freud, Citizenship and Law6: Survival Time/Human Time: Hannah Arendt and Behrouz Boochani7: Conclusion: Hannah Arendt in BaddawiAppendix: The Hands Are Hers Yousif M. Qasmiyeh

Each of Stonebridge's case studies are about moments like this-moments when the limits of our moral and political worlds become unbearable, when the routine language of justice rings hollow, when people begin to speak and write outside the boundaries of what is expected and accepted. In our world of baffled and defeated outrage, nothing could be more necessary.