{"product_id":"writing-human-rights-the-political-imaginaries-of-writers-of-color-hardback-9780816697052","title":"Writing Human Rights; The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color (Hardback) 9780816697052","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWriting Human Rights\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCrystal Parikh (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816697052\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 October 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.538 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\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\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe legal texts and aspirational ideals of human rights are usually understood and applied in a global context with little bearing on the legal discourse, domestic political struggles, or social justice concerns within the United States. In \u003ci\u003eWriting Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, Crystal Parikh uses the international human rights regime to read works by contemporary American writers of color-Toni Morrison, Chang-rae Lee, Ana Castillo, Aimee Phan, and others-to explore the conditions under which new norms, more capacious formulations of rights, and alternative kinds of political communities emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParikh contends that unlike humanitarianism, which views its objects as victims, human rights provide avenues for the creation of political subjects. Pairing the ethical deliberations in such works as \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Gesture Life\u003c\/i\u003e with human rights texts like the United Nations Convention Against Torture, she considers why principles articulated as rights in international conventions and treaties-such as the right to self-determination or the right to family-are too often disregarded at home. Human rights concepts instead provide writers of color with a deeply meaningful method for political and moral imagining in their literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAffiliating transnational works of American literature with decolonization, socialist, and other political struggles in the global south, this book illuminates a human rights critique of idealized American rights and freedoms that have been globalized in the twenty-first century. In the absence of domestic human rights enforcement, these literatures provide a considerable repository for those ways of life and subjects of rights made otherwise impossible in the present antidemocratic moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The U.S. Good Life, the UN World, and the Human Rights Record\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUN International Bill of Human Rights; Toni Morrison, \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Other Humanities: The Bandung Spirit and the Right to Self-Determination\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e2. “Come Almost Home”: The Impossible Subject of Human Rights\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e3. “A Globe within Him”: Security at the Borderline of War and Torture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUN Convention against Torture; Susan Choi, \u003ci\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Regular Revolutions: The Feminist Travels of Human Rights\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e5. Being Well: Minor Subjects and the Right to Health\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion: An Aesthetics of Kin and the Rights of the Child\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Aimee Phan, \u003ci\u003eWe Should Never Meet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570085949720,"sku":"9780816697052","price":68.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/writing-human-rights-the-political-imaginaries-of-writers-of-color-hardback-9780816697052","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}