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Human rights and the arts : perspectives on global Asia / edited by Susan J. Henders and Lily Cho ; contributors, Michael Bodden [and thirteen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Global encounters.
- Global Encounters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Social aspects--Asia.
- Human rights.
- Human rights in literature.
- Human rights in art.
- Arts, Asian.
- Arts and society--Asia.
- Arts and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By shifting the discussion of human rights away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty, this book moves toward a new understanding of human rights that takes account of the diverse contexts central to being human and living a life of dignity.
- Contents:
- Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia; I: Freedoms and Democracies; 2 Love the Future; 3 "September"; II: War and Atrocity; 4 Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights; 5 Incendiary Material; III: Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies; 6 Literary Lament on a Death Foretold; 7 Reading Peasants' Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam's "Sri Sumarah" and "Bawuk"; 8 The River, the People, and the State(s); IV: Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires; 9 Abuse and Its Aftermath; 10 Chasing the Monster; 11 Human Rights and Human Wrongs
- 12 Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights SubjectV: Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms; 13 Human Rights and the Poetics of "Migritude"; 14 Universal Rights and Separate Universes; VI: Afterword; 15 Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global Asia; Index; About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-22570-6
- 1-4985-0630-5
- 0-7391-8474-1
- OCLC:
- 894895372
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