{"product_id":"9780195385779","title":"Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities","description":"\u003cp\u003eViolations 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\u003cem\u003e Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities\u003c\/em\u003e, Professor Susan Tiefenbrun analyzes international law as represented artfully in the humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMass 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Agent and the movie Hotel Rwanda\u003c\/em\u003e (both representing terrorism); Martin Luther King's \u003cem\u003eLetter from Birmingham Jail\u003c\/em\u003e; two documentary films about women and family law in Iran, \u003cem\u003eDivorce Iranian Style\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTwo Women\u003c\/em\u003e; Lisa See's \u003cem\u003eSnow Flower and the Secret Fan\u003c\/em\u003e (women's human rights and human trafficking in China); Uzodinma Iweala's \u003cem\u003eBeasts of\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eNo Nation\u003c\/em\u003e (shedding light on child soldiering and trafficking in Africa), and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008996032752,"sku":"9780195385779","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195385779_p0.jpg?v=1763665504","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195385779","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}