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Book/Printed Material The subject(s) of human rights : crises, violations, and Asian/American critique

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Title

  • The subject(s) of human rights : crises, violations, and Asian/American critique

Summary

  • "This work takes seriously the ways in which Asian American studies has from its founding engaged with humanitarian crises and large-scale violations. Committed to extending this critical work across local/global, domestic/international, and immigrant/refugee frames, this collection relocates Asian America from the periphery to the center of human rights critique"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974- editor
  • Beauregard, Guy Pierre, editor
  • Lee, Hsiu-chuan, editor
  • Thien, Madeleine, 1974- writer of afterword

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2020.

Contents

  • Introduction: The subject(s) of human rights : recalibrating Asian/American critique / Guy Beauregard, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, and Hsiu-Chuan Lee -- Human rights and South Korea : U.S. imperialism, state ideologies, national politics, and camptown prostitution / Min-Jung Kim -- After 1947 : the relative, the refugee, and the immigrant in the Chinese Canadian family narrative / Christopher Lee -- The Vancouver Asahi connection : (re-)engagement of the families of returnees/deportees in Japanese Canadian history / Masumi Izumi -- A journey to freedom : human rights discourse and refugee memory / Vinh Nguyen -- "Every bombed village is my hometown" : James Baldwin's engagement with the American war in Vietnam / Yin Wang -- Matronly maids and willful women : migrant domestic workers in the plural / Christopher B. Patterson -- (De)humanizing labor : Southeast Asian migrant narratives in Taiwan / Grace Hui-Chuan Wu -- Factories, farms, and fisheries : human trafficking and tethered subjectivities from Asia to the Pacific / Annie Isabel Fukushima -- Re-framing Cambodia's killing fields : the commemorative limitations of atrocity tourism / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials -- Reclaiming home and "righting" citizenships in postwar Sri Lanka : internal displacement, memory, and human rights / Dinidu Karunanayake -- Toward an aesthetics and erotics of non-sovereign rights in Okinawa / Mayumo Inoue -- Figuring North Korean lives : reading at the limits of human rights / Christine Kim -- Afterword: The act of listening / Madeleine Thien.

Headings

  • -  Human rights--Asia
  • -  Human rights--North America
  • -  Asians--Social conditions
  • -  Asian Americans--Social conditions
  • -  Human rights in literature
  • -  Asian Americans--Study and teaching
  • -  Asia--Relations--North America
  • -  North America--Relations--Asia

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • JC599.A78

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019981205

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., Editor, and Madeleine Thien. The subjects of human rights: crises, violations, and Asian/American critique. editeds by Beauregard, Guy Pierre, and Lee, Hsiu-Chuan Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019981205/.

APA citation style:

Schlund-Vials, C. J. & Thien, M., Beauregard, G. P. & Lee, H., eds. (2020) The subjects of human rights: crises, violations, and Asian/American critique. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019981205/.

MLA citation style:

Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., Editor, and Madeleine Thien. The subjects of human rights: crises, violations, and Asian/American critique. ed by Beauregard, Guy Pierre, and Lee, Hsiu-Chuan Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019981205/>.