Human Rights and the Arts (eBook)

Perspectives on Global Asia

Lily Cho, Susan J. Henders (Herausgeber)

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2014
278 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8474-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia approaches human rights issues from the perspective of artists and writers in global Asia. By focusing on the interventions of writers, artists, filmmakers, and dramatists, the book moves toward a new understanding of human rights that shifts the discussion of contexts and subjects away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty. From Ai Wei Wei and Michael Ondaatje, to Umar Kayam, Saryang Kim, Lia Zixin, and Noor Zaheer, among others, this volume takes its lead from global Asian artists, powerfully re-orienting thinking about human rights subjects and contexts to include the physical, spiritual, social, ecological, cultural, and the transnational. Looking at a range of work from Tibet, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, China, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Macau as well as Asian diasporic communities, this book puts forward an understanding of global Asia that underscores "e;Asia"e; as a global site. It also highlights the continuing importance of nation-states and specific geographical entities, while stressing the ways that the human rights subject breaks out of these boundaries.Many of these works are included in the companion volume Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology, also published by Lexington Books.

Autor

Susan J. Henders is associate professor of political science at York University. Lily Cho is associate professor of English at York University.

Inhalt

1. Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: Conceptualizing ContextsLily Cho and Susan J. HendersPart I Freedoms and Democracies2. Love the Future: Ai Weiwei and Art for Human RightsAlice Ming Wai Jim3. “September”: Seeing Religion and Rights in BurmaAlicia TurnerPart II War and Atrocity4. Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights: Perspectives from Dương Thu Hương’s Novel Without a Name Van Nguyen-Marshall5. Incendiary Material: Ethnicity and the Sri Lankan Civil Conflict in Anil's Ghost and Wilting LaughterArun Nedra RodrigoPart III Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies6. Literary Lament of a Death Foretold: Tibetan Writers on the Forced Settlement of HerdersFrançoise Robin7. Reading Peasant Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam’s “Sri Sumarah” and Bawuk”Mary M. Young8. The River, the People and the State(s): Padma Nadir Majhi as a Meditation on Ecology and Human RightsAfsan ChowdhuryPart IV Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires9. Abuse and Its Aftermath: Kim Saryang’s “Into the Light,” Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, and Yuasa Katsue’s “Red Dates”Theodore W. Goossen10. Chasing the Monster: The Representation of Korean Residents in Japan and Human Rights in Oshima Nagisa’s Film Death by HangingJooyeon Rhee11. Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Reading Shama Futehally’s Reaching Bombay Central and Noor Zaheer’s “A Life in Transit”Arun P. Mukherjee12. Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights Subject: The Macanese of Macau in Literature, Film, and LawSusan J. HendersPart V Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms13. Human Rights and the Poetics of “Migritude”: South Asian Diasporic Spoken WordSailaja Krishnamurti14. Universal Rights and Separate Universes: Local/National Identities, Global Power, and the Modeling and Representing of Human Rights in Indonesian Performance ArtsMichael BoddenPart VI Afterword15. Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global AsiaLily Cho

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.10.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
• Co-Autor: Michael Bodden, Jooyeon Rhee, Francoise Robin, Arundathy Rodrigo, Alicia M. Turner, Mary M. Young, Lily Cho, Afsan Chowdhury, Theodore W. Goossen, Susan J. Henders, Alice Ming Wai Jim, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Arun P. Mukherjee, Van Nguyen-Marshall
• Zusatzinfo: 6 Illustrations including: - 6 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: ART • Asian Studies • Comparative Literature • global asia • Humanities • Human Rights
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8474-1 / 0739184741
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8474-5 / 9780739184745