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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...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2017]
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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