Human rights and the arts in global Asia : conceptualizing contexts / Lily Cho and Susan J. Henders -- Love the future : Ai Weiwei and art for human rights / Alice Ming Wai Jim -- "September" : seeing religion and rights in Burma / Alicia Turner -- Impacts and legacies of war on human rights : perspectives from Dương Thu Hương's Novel without a name / Van Nguyen-Marshall -- Incendiary material : ethnicity and the Sri Lankan civil conflict in Anil's ghost and Wilting laughter / Arun Nedra Rodrigo -- Literary lament of a death foretold : Tibetan writers on the forced settlement of herders / Françoise Robin -- Reading peasant rights to livelihood in Umar Kayam's Sri Sumarah and Bawuk / Mary M. Young -- The river, the people and the state(s) : Padma nadir majhi as a meditation on ecology and human rights / Afsan Chowdhury -- Abuse and its aftermath : Kim Saryang's Into the light, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Yuasa Katsue's Red dates / Theodore W. Goossen -- Chasing the monster : the representation of Korean residents in Japan and human rights in Oshima Nagisa's film Death by hanging / Jooyeon Rhee -- Human rights and human wrongs : reading Shama Futehally's Reaching Bombay Central and Noor Zaheer's A life in transit / Arun P. Mukherjee -- Intersectionality, hybridity, and the minority rights subject : the Macanese of Macau in literature, film, and law / Susan J. Henders -- Human rights and the poetics of "migritude" : South Asian diasporic spoken word / Sailaja Krishnamurti -- Universal rights and separate universes : local/national identities, global power, and the modeling and representing of human rights in Indonesian performance arts / Michael Bodden -- Confucius institutes, human rights, and global Asia / Lily Cho.
Summary:
"By shifting the discussion of human rights away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty, this book moves toward a new understanding of human rights that takes account of the diverse contexts central to being human and living a life of dignity"-- Provided by publisher.
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