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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824511803321

Titolo

Human rights and the arts : perspectives on global Asia / / edited by Susan J. Henders and Lily Cho ; contributors, Michael Bodden [and thirteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-0630-5

0-7391-8474-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Global Encounters

Disciplina

323.095

Soggetti

Human rights - Social aspects - Asia

Human rights in literature

Human rights in art

Arts, Asian

Arts and society - Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia; I: Freedoms and Democracies; 2 Love the Future; 3 "September"; II: War and Atrocity; 4 Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights; 5 Incendiary Material; III: Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies; 6 Literary Lament on a Death Foretold; 7 Reading Peasants' Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam's "Sri Sumarah" and "Bawuk"; 8 The River, the People, and the State(s); IV: Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires; 9 Abuse and Its Aftermath; 10 Chasing the Monster; 11 Human Rights and Human Wrongs

12 Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights SubjectV: Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms; 13 Human Rights and the Poetics of "Migritude"; 14 Universal Rights and Separate Universes; VI: Afterword; 15 Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global Asia; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.