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James Dawes

James Dawes
James Dawes teaches literature and human rights at Macalester College. He is the author of Evil Men (Harvard University Press, 2013), winner of the International Human Rights Book Award; That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity (Harvard University Press, 2007), Independent Publisher Book Award Finalist; and The Language of War (Harvard University Press, 2002). He has written for or appeared as the feature guest on media outlets ranging from National Public Radio, the BBC, and Bulgarian National Radio to the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and CNN.com.


On the Risks of Fictionalizing National Tragedy

Isabel Allende... Human Rights Novelist?
October 11, 2018  By James Dawes
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