Decoding international law : semiotics and the humanities

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Decoding international law : semiotics and the humanities

Susan Tiefenbrun

Oxford University Press, c2010

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. People's inhumanity to people escalates as wars proliferate and respect for human rights and the laws of war diminish. In Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities, Professor Susan Tiefenbrun analyzes international law as represented artfully in the humanities. Mass violence and flagrant violations of human rights have a dramatic effect that naturally appeals to writers, film makers, artists, philosophers, historians, and legal scholars who represent these horrors indirectly through various media and in coded language. This reader-friendly book enables us to comprehend and decode international law and human rights laws by interpreting meanings concealed in great works of art, literature, film and the humanities. Here, the author adopts an interdisciplinary method of interpretation based on the science of signs, linguistics, stylistics, and an in-depth analysis of the work's cultural context. This book unravels the complexities of such controversial issues as terrorism, civil disobedience, women's and children's human rights, and the piracy of intellectual property. It provides in-depth analyses of diverse literary works: Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and the movie Hotel Rwanda (both representing terrorism); Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail; two documentary films about women and family law in Iran, Divorce Iranian Style and Two Women; Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (women's human rights and human trafficking in China); Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation (shedding light on child soldiering and trafficking in Africa), and much more.

目次

  • Acknowledgments
  • PART A: INTRODUCTION TO SEMIOTICS AND THE LAW
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Legal Semiotics
  • PART B: TERRORISM
  • Chapter 2. A Semiotic Approach to a Legal Definition of Terrorism
  • Chapter 3. State-Sponsored Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Role of Story-Telling as a Self-Help Remedy: Law, Literature and Semiotics
  • PART C: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
  • Chapter 4. Deconstructing nullCivil Disobediencenull: A Semiotic Definition
  • Chapter 5. Semiotics and Martin Luther King's nullLetter from Birmingham Jailnull
  • Chapter 6. On Civil Disobedience, Jurisprudence, Feminism and the Law in the Antigones of Sophocles and Anouilh
  • PART D: WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
  • Chapter 7. The Semiotics of Women's Human Rights in Iran
  • Chapter 8. Gendercide and the Cultural Context of Sex Trafficking in China
  • PART E: CHILDREN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
  • Chapter 9. The Culture of Violence: Child Soldiers, Slavery and the Trafficking of Children
  • PART F: CULTURE AND SEMIOTICS
  • Chapter 10. The Japanese Culture and Copyright Infringement, Defamation, and Sex Trafficking: A Study of the Fictional Life of a Geisha
  • Chapter 11. The Impact of Culture on the Semiotics of Treaty Interpretation: How Pirates Read and Misread the Berne Convention

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