{"product_id":"writing-human-rights-9780816697069","title":"Writing Human Rights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Clearly passionate and committed, Crystal Parikh has read broadly and deeply into this very exciting topic and opens up a range of provocative questions.\"—David Palumbo-Liu, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this ambitious study, Crystal Parikh shows how the literature of writers of color has always been preoccupied with what are now called ‘human rights.’ Her wide-ranging and urgent readings, written with the precision and care of a passionate literary and social critic, reminds us of how much literature matters in imagining and demanding justice and humanity.\"—Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Crystal Parikh’s Writing Human Rights is a timely and ambitious work that makes an impassioned claim for both reclaiming and problematizing contemporary human rights discourse. Parikh’s work serves as an important model of an engaged and probing mode of writing for our contemporary moment when democratic faith and norms are being thrown into question.\"—\u003ci\u003eContemporary Political Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The U.S. Good Life, the UN World, and the Human Rights Record\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUN International Bill of Human Rights; Toni Morrison, \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Other Humanities: The Bandung Spirit and the Right to Self-Determination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; Ernest Gaines, \u003ci\u003eA Gathering of Old Men; \u003c\/i\u003eMaxine Hong Kingston, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. “Come Almost Home”: The Impossible Subject of Human Rights\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUN Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Jessica Hagedorn,\u003ci\u003e Dogeaters;\u003c\/i\u003e Chang-rae Lee, \u003ci\u003eA Gesture Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. “A Globe within Him”: Security at the Borderline of War and Torture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUN Convention against Torture; Susan Choi, \u003ci\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Regular Revolutions: The Feminist Travels of Human Rights\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; Julia Alvarez, \u003ci\u003eHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIn the Time of the Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Being Well: Minor Subjects and the Right to Health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Jhumpa Lahiri, \u003ci\u003eUnaccustomed Earth; \u003c\/i\u003eAna Castillo, \u003ci\u003eSo Far from God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: An Aesthetics of Kin and the Rights of the Child\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Aimee Phan, \u003ci\u003eWe Should Never Meet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405977788759,"sku":"9780816697069","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816697069.jpg?v=1730494118","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-human-rights-9780816697069","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}