The Subject(s) of Human Rights: Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique (Asian American History and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439915733 ISBN 13: 9781439915738

Verlag: TEMPLE UNIV PR, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Human rights violations have always been part of Asian American studies. From Chinese immigration restrictions, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, yellow peril characterizations, and recent acts of deportation and Islamophobia, Asian Americans have consistently functioned as subordinated "subjects" of human rights violations. The Subject(s) of Human Rights brings together scholars from North America and Asia to recalibrate these human rights concerns from both sides of the Pacific.

The essays in this collection provide a sharper understanding of how Asian/Americans have been subjected to human rights violations, how they act as subjects of history and agents of change, and how they produce knowledge around such subjects. The editors of and contributors to The Subject(s) of Human Rights examine refugee narratives, human trafficking, and citizenship issues in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. These themes further refract issues of American war-making, settler colonialism, military occupation, collateral damage, and displacement that relocate the imagined geographies of Asian America from the periphery to the center of human rights critique.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials is a Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. She is the author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing and War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work.
Guy Beauregard is a Professor at National Taiwan University. He is an Associate Member of Simon Fraser University's Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research.
Hsiu-chuan Lee is Professor in the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TEMPLE UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1439915733
• ISBN 13: 9781439915738
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
• Herausgeber: Schlund-Vials Cathy J., Beauregard Guy, Lee Hsiu-Chuan
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande