ABSTRACT
Narrative strategies employed in the novel of human rights demonstrate just what "indivisibility" can mean in the rights context, and how damaging to the work of protecting the rights of all humans has been the split of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the two major human rights conventions between civil and political rights. It also narrates strategies blow out the letter of the law to show how the interactions among humans in both public and private contexts and as thoe spheres overlap inform the global distribution of safety and harm in surprising ways. Little Bee, the main character of UK writer Chris Cleave's novel of the same name, offers readers a hard view of gender relations when she narrates the story of a fellow asylum seeker incarcerated in one of England's processing centers.
