After Human Rights: Literature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America, 1990-2010

Fernando J. Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century. Prior to this, key literary and artistic projects articulated Latin American modernity by attempting to address and supplement the state's inability to embody and enact justice.

Rosenberg argues that since the topics of emancipation, identity, and revolution no longer define socia...