WITHDRAWN: ‘Rights for human at stake’ – Echoes from Henry Wadsworth longfellow’s the slave in the Dismal swamp

Abstract

Human rights are meant for every human being, immaterial of race, gender, ethnic origin, place of residence, belief, speech, colour, etc. We are entitled to human rights without inequity. All these rights are interdependent. The concept of Human Rights is as old as Art. At one level, this artistic concern reveals itself through the investigation and supposition of Human Rights. Human Rights Literature is a genre in literary field that deals with human rights problems, and hence supports the principles of human rights. The objective of Human Rights Literature is to inspire for action, that tends to be a basic and vital constituent of the tussle for preservation of human rights. The literary work The Slave in the Dismal Swamp by Henry Longfellow is taken to study how human is deprived of his own rights. This paper envisages the pathetic state of human life in which the very right to exercise and experience the ordained rights at stake.