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Writing human rights : the political imaginaries of writers of color
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Title
Writing human rights : the political imaginaries of writers of color / Crystal Parikh.
ISBN
9780816697052
0816697051
9780816697069
081669706X
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Physical Description
326 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary
The legal texts and aspirational ideals of human rights are usually understood and applied in a global context with little bearing on legal discourse, domestic political struggles, or social justice within the United States. In Writing Human Rights, Crystal Parikh uses the international human rights regime to read works by contemporary American writers of color-Toni Morrison, Chang-rae Lee, Ana Castillo, Aimee Phan, and others-exploring the conditions under which new norms, more capacious formulations of rights, and alternative political communities emerge. Book jacket.
Other formats
Online version: Parikh, Crystal. Writing human rights. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 24, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The U.S. Good Life, the UN World, and the Human Rights Record. UN International Bill of Human Rights
Toni Morrison, Beloved
1. Other Humanities: The Bandung Spirit and the Right to Self-Determination. UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Ernest Gaines, A Gathering of Old Men
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
2. "Come Almost Home": The Impossible Subject of Human Rights. UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters
Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life
3. "A Globe within Him": Security at the Borderline of War and Torture. UN Convention against Torture
Susan Choi, The Foreign Student
4. Regular Revolutions: The Feminist Travels of Human Rights. UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Julia Alvarez, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies
5. Being Well: Minor Subjects and the Right to Health. UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
Ana Castillo, So Far from God
Conclusion: An Aesthetics of Kin and the Rights of the Child. UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Aimee Phan, We Should Never Meet
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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