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The subject(s) of human rights : crises, violations, and Asian/American critique / edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Guy Beauregard, and Hsiu-chuan Lee ; with an afterword by Madeleine Thien.
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- Book
- Series:
- Asian American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Asia.
- Human rights.
- Relations.
- Asians--Social conditions.
- Asians.
- Asia.
- Human rights--North America.
- Asian Americans--Social conditions.
- Asian Americans.
- Human rights in literature.
- Asian Americans--Study and teaching.
- Asia--Relations--North America.
- North America--Relations--Asia.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 249 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2019).
- Other Format:
- Print version: The subject(s) of human rights
- ISBN:
- 9781439915745
- 1439915741
- Publisher Number:
- 99983288492
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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