Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples

Collected Essays and Speeches

Georg Brandes, William Banks

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780299324100
• eBook ISBN:
  9780299324131
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

Georg Brandes was known as the "Father of the Modern Breakthrough" for his influence on Scandinavian writers in the late nineteenth century. A prominent writer, thinker, and speaker, he often examined intellectual topics beyond the literary criticism he was best known for. In this collection, William Banks has translated a number of Brandes's pieces that engage in the concerns of oppressed peoples. By collecting, annotating, and contextualizing these works, Banks reintroduces Brandes as a major progenitor of thinking about the rights of national minorities and the colonized.
Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples includes thirty-five essays and published speeches from the early twenty-first century on subjects as diverse as the Boxer Rebellion, displaced peoples from World War I, Finland's Jewish population, and imperialism. This collection will interest interdisciplinary scholars of human rights as well as those who study Scandinavian intellectual and literary history.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on the Source Texts
• Introduction
• 1. The Hun Speech (1900)
• 2. Armenia (1900)
• 3. Missionaries (1901)
• 4. A Chinese Letter about the War (1901)
• 5. Chinese Letters (1901)
• 6. Contemporary Civilization (1901)
• 7. The Women of Poland (1901)
• 8. Macedonia (1902)
• 9. The Agony of a People and Utopias (1903)
• 10. Armenia and Europe (1903)
• 11. Mano Negra (1903)
• 12. The Georgian People (1903)
• 13. Transvaal (1903)
• 14. The Ruthenians (1904)
• 15. Finland (1904)
• 16. To the Students of Germany (1904)
• 17. The Rights and Duties of the Weaker (1905)
• 18. The Aryan Race (1905)
• 19. To the Schoolchildren of Russian Poland (1905)
• 20. The Future of Russian Poland (1905)
• 21. Zionism (1905)
• 22. The Jews in Finland (1908)
• 23. The Fourth Partition of Poland (1909)
• 24. Race Theories (1912)
• 25. Conditions in Russian Poland (1914)
• 26. Poland (1915)
• 27. The Great Era (1915)
• 28. The Great Nations’ Concern for the Small (1915)
• 29. Introductory Words for the Polish Evening in Copenhagen (1916)
• 30. An Appeal (1916)
• 31. A Response to Mr. William Archer (1916)
• 32. Persia (1916)
• 33. The Armenians (1917)
• 34. Imperialism (1922)
• 35. Europe Now (1925)
• Bibliography
• Index of Named Persons