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In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and
tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino
literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an
ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel
Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh argues that the minority
subject is obligated in a primary, preontological, and irrecusable
relation of responsibility to the Other. Episodes of betrayal and
treason allegorize the position of this subject, beholden to the
many others who embody the alterity of existence and whose demands
upon the subject result in transgressions of intimacy and loyalty.
In this first major comparative study of narratives by and about
Asian Americans and Latinos, Parikh considers writings by Frank
Chin, Gish Jen, Chang-rae Lee, Eric Liu, Americo Parades, and
Richard Rodriguez, as well as narratives about the persecution of
Wen Ho Lee and the rescue and return of Elian Gonzalez. By
addressing the conflicts at the heart of filiality, the public
dimensions of language in the constitution of minority "community,"
and the mercenary mobilizations of "model minority" status, An
Ethics of Betrayal seriously engages the challenges of conducting
ethnic and critical race studies based on the uncompromising and
unromantic ideas of justice, reciprocity, and ethical society.
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.
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an
engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth
century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American
literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field
within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the
variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural
movements affecting the development of Asian American literature.
Written by a host of leading scholars in the field, this book
provides insight into the representative movements, regional
settings, archival resources and critical reception that define
Asian American literature. Covering subjects from immigrant
narratives and internment literature to contemporary race studies
and the problem of translation, this Companion provides insight
into the myriad traditions that have shaped the Asian American
literary landscape.
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an
engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth
century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American
literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field
within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the
variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural
movements affecting the development of Asian American literature.
Written by a host of leading scholars in the field, this book
provides insight into the representative movements, regional
settings, archival resources and critical reception that define
Asian American literature. Covering subjects from immigrant
narratives and internment literature to contemporary race studies
and the problem of translation, this Companion provides insight
into the myriad traditions that have shaped the Asian American
literary landscape.
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