Romancing human rights : gender, intimacy, and power between Burma and the West / Tamara C. Ho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ho, Tamara C., 1969- author.

Series:

Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aung San Suu Kyi.

Law-Yone, Wendy.

Women, Burmese--Public opinion.

Women, Burmese.

Public opinion--English-speaking countries.

Public opinion.

Women in literature.

Burmese literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Burmese literature.

Ma Ma Leʺ, 1917-1982. Ṃuinʻ r* ma hū.

Ma Ma Leʺ.

Law-Yone, Wendy--Criticism and interpretation.

Aung San Suu Kyi--Political and social views.

Political and social views.

Criticism and interpretation.

Women authors.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 184 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu in Association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles, [2015]

Summary:

In Scrutinized! Monica Chu reveals bow Asian North American novel's fascination with mystery, detection, spying and surveillance is a literary response to anxieties over race. According to Chiu, this allegiance to the genre that takes interruptions to social norms as its foundation speaks to a state of unease at a time of racial scrutiny. Book jacket.

Contents:

From Orwell to Rambo: interracial affiliations and transnational antagonisms in the age of human rights

The making of a modern Burmese wife: gendering the local and possessive investments in masculinity in Ma Ma Lay's Not out of hate

"Truth has a witness": postcolonial adjudication, interracial passing, and human rights

Performative politics of Aung San Suu Kyi (or papa's baby and mama's maybe)

Wendy Law-Yone: Burmese displacement and co-occupancy in the United States

Conclusion: diaspora and daughters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-175) and index.

ISBN:

9780824839253

0824839250

OCLC:

884571005