Writing Human Rights : The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Parikh, Crystal (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and literature.
Human rights in literature.
American literature > Minority authors.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Politique et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs issus des minorites > Histoire et critique.
Politics and literature > United States > History.
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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.

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