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    ‘I am the Mau: short stories for young people’ AND the role of fiction in raising human rights awareness with an African perspective

    Glasheen C 2020.pdf (1.216Mb)
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    Authors
    Glasheen, Chemutai Agnes
    Date
    2020
    Supervisor
    Rachel Robertson
    Per Henningsgaard
    Lisa Hartley
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    Faculty
    Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80629
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    Abstract

    The thesis is a two-fold response to how human rights awareness can be integrated into fiction for secondary schools. The exegesis – framed by the interdisciplinary perspectives of human rights, human rights education, and comparative literature – examines African understandings of human rights against universalist ideas, discusses the relationship between rights and fiction, and analyses five short stories by African writers. My creative work is a collection of ten short stories that interrogate complexity around human rights.

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