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Writing Human Rights - The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color (Hardcover)
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Writing Human Rights - The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color (Hardcover)
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The 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 Writing Human Rights,
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.
Parikh 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 Beloved and A Gesture Life 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. Affiliating
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.
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