Romancing human rights : gender, intimacy, and power between Burma and the West /

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When the world thinks of Burma, it is often in relation to Aung San Suu Kyi. But beyond her is another world, one that complicates the over determination of Burma as a pariah state and myths about the 'high status' of Southeast Asian women. Critiquing this fraught terrain, Tamara C. Ho map...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ho, Tamara C., 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015]
Colección:Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Temas:
Ma Ma Leʺ, > 1917-1982. > Ṃuinʻ r* ma hū.
Law-Yone, Wendy > Criticism and interpretation.
Aung San Suu Kyi > Political and social views.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Law-Yone, Wendy
Ṃuinʻ r* ma hū (Ma Ma Leʺ)
Women, Burmese > Public opinion.
Public opinion > English-speaking countries.
Women in literature.
Burmese literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Femmes > Birmanie > Opinion publique.
Opinion publique > Anglophonie.
Femmes dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Political and social views
Public opinion
Women in literature
English-speaking countries
Burmannia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Orwell to Rambo: interracial affiliations and transnational antagonisms in the age of human rights
  • The making of a modern Burmese wife: gendering the local and possessive investments in masculinity in Ma Ma Lay's Not out of hate
  • "Truth has a witness": postcolonial adjudication, interracial passing, and human rights
  • Performative politics of Aung San Suu Kyi (or papa's baby and mama's maybe)
  • Wendy Law-Yone: Burmese displacement and co-occupancy in the United States
  • Conclusion: diaspora and daughters.

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