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Title:

Human rights in the Americas / edited by Maria Herrera-Sobek, Francisco A. Lomeli, and Luz Angelica Kirschner.

Publisher:

RoutledgeTaylor & Francis Group,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xix, 313 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Human rights--Latin America.
Human rights in literature.
Indigenous peoples--Latin America--Social conditions.
Blacks--Latin America--Social conditions.
Women--Latin America--Social conditions.
Latin America--Social conditions.
Blacks--Social conditions.
Human rights.
Human rights in literature.
Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Women--Social conditions.
Latin America.

Other Authors:

Herrera-Sobek, Maria, editor.
Lomeli, Francisco A., editor.
Kirschner, Luz Angelica, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : human rights in the Americas / Luz Angelica Kirschner, Maria Herrera-Sobek, and Francisco A. Lomeli -- Human rights in the Americas : a stony path / Josef Raab -- Constructing rights and empires in the early Americas : the parallel reception histories of Carlos de Sigu˜enza y Gongora and Cotton Mather / Philipp Reisner -- Maps of violence, maps of resistance, or, Where is home in the Americas? / Roland Walter -- Human rights situation in Central America through the lens of literary representation and violence / Xaver Daniel Hergenro˜ther -- Rebellion, repression, reform : U.S. Marines in the Dominican Republic / Breanne Robertson -- Black women writers in the Americas : the struggle for human rights in the context of coloniality / Isabel Caldeira -- Autobiography, fiction, and racial hatred : representation in Jamaica Kincaid's See now then / Goncʹalo Cholant -- The rebirth of the myth of the American hero and feminism / Rita Santos -- Dancing resistance, controlling singing and right to name heritage : Mexican indigenous autonomy, P'urepecha practices, and United Nations / Ruth Hellier-Tinoco -- Carey McWilliams's activism and the democratic human rights tradition / Maria Jose Canelo -- The ontogenesis of fear in Hector Tobar's The barbarian nurseries / Alexander Ullman -- Brazilian quilombos : Castainho and its struggle for human rights / Wellington Marinho de Lira -- Capa Prieto and the decolonial Afro-Latin(a/o) American imagination / Luz Angelica Kirschner -- 'We got Latin soul' : transbarrio dialogues and Afro-Latin identity formation in New York's Puerto Rican community during the age of Black Power (1966-1972) / Matti Steinitz -- From racism to speciesism : the question of the freedom of the other in the works of J.M. Coetzee and Jure Detela / Marjetka Golez Kaucic -- To be or not to be human : the plasticity of posthuman rights / Nicole Sparling Barco.

Summary:

"This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields. Taking 1492 as a point of departure, the text explores Eurocentric historiographies of human rights and offer a more complete understanding of the genealogy of the human rights discourse and its many manifestations in the Americas"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Inter-American research

ISBN:

0367636913
9780367636913

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1198988710

LCCN:

2020044699

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)