Writing human rights : the political imaginaries of writers of color /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.