LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Literature and Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach with Reference to Tomson Highway’s Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing

A. Amala Arokia Raj, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate

1. Introduction

The highest aspiration of the common man is to lead a life where he can enjoy freedom of speech and freedom of belief, and has no fear of suppression. The one factor that ensures the hopes of a common man is human rights. Sometimes, the basic human rights have been taken, and are being taken away from a vast section of the population across the globe. Cultures, language, religion of the minorities and sometime the whole race of the minorities have been abolished by economically and politically powerful society or governments. The regretful thing is that these kinds of tragedies, sometimes, don’t come to light at all and nobody knows the pain and sufferings were undergone by people. Here, literature, being reflection of reality, has been playing a vital role to restore the rights of human beings by exposing the ground reality. World literature always addresses events that arguably comprise human rights stories. According to Novel Rights, literature has a unique capacity to touch the hearts and minds of people and engages them in a way that is distinct from political or academic texts. It can even lead to a personal or general positive change. As such, literature is an important tool for promotion of human rights. Literature has been and will continue to be the great promoter of a culture of human rights.

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A. Amala Arokia Raj, M.A, M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Vels University
Pallavaram
Chennai - 600117
Tamilnadu, India
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