Considers the ways Asian American studies has engaged with humanitarian crises and large-scale violations
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“This collection shows us why and how, as a field of study born of twentieth-century Cold War acts of dehumanization,
Asian American Studies in the twenty-first century is bound to be a leading edge of human rights critique.”
— COLLEEN LYE, University of California, Berkeley
“This book is an exciting and entirely new contribution in the cultural studies of human rights and in Asian American Studies.
It brings a transnational—and, in particular, transpacific—approach to the study of human rights, establishing how central
the presence of Asia has been in the iteration and practice of human rights from the end of World War II to the present.
The editors and contributors make clear the varied and significant interventions that Asian Americanist critique poses for the
study of rights discourses, geopolitical crises, state formation, and humanitarianism.”
— CRYSTAL PARIKH, Director of the Asian/Pacific/ American Institute at New York University
The essays in this collection provide a sharper understanding of how Asian/Americans have been subjected to human rights
violations, how they act as subjectsof 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.（2020-06-15 歐美所訪問學人李秀娟小姐）
本書目錄
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: The Subject(s) of Human Rights ; Recalibrating Asian/American
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PART I RECOLLECTING HUMAN RIGHTS |
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1 Human Rights and South Korea : U.S. Imperialism,
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2 After 1947 : The Relative, the refugee, and the Immigrant
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39 |
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3 The Vancouver Asahi Connection : (Re-)engagement of the
Families of Returnees/Deportees in Japanese Canadian History | Masumi Izumi
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56 |
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4 A Journey to Freedom : Human Rights Discourse and
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74 |
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PART II IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECTS:RACE, GENDER, AND LABOR |
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5 "Every bombed Village Is My Hometown" : James Baldwin's
Engagement with the American War in Vietnam | Yin Wang
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95 |
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6 Matronly Maids and Willful Women : Migrant Domestic
Workers in the Plural | Christopher B. Patterson
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109 |
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7 (De)humanizing Labor: Southeast Asian Mgrant narratives
in Taiwan | Grace Hui-Chuan Wu
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127 |
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8 Factories, Farms, and Fisheries : Human Trafficking and Tethered
Subjectivities from Asia to the Pacific | Annie Isabel Fukushima
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144 |
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PART III READING AT THE LIMTS:THE AFTERMATHS,
AFTERLIVES,AND AESTHETICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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9 Reframing Cambodia's Killing Fields: The Commemorative
Limitations of Atrocity Tourism | Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
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163 |
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10 Reclaiming Home and "Righting" Citizenships in Postwar Sri Lanka : Internal
Displacement, Memory, and Human Rights | Dinidu Karunanayake
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180 |
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11 Toward an Aesthetics and Erotics of Nonsovereign
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201 |
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12 Figuring North Korean Lives : Reading at the Limits
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217 |
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Afterword: The act of listening | Madeleine Thien |
233 |
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Contributors |
241 |
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Index |
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