The subject(s) of human rights crises, violations, and Asian/American critique
The field of Asian American studies grew out of mid-twentieth century civil rights struggles, anti-war protests, and third world liberation movements. As a result, human rights issues have always been part of Asian American studies, though they've been largely peripheral to the interdiscipline....
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Rome ; Tokyo :
Temple University Press
[2020]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429701006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
