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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 "Asia" 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.
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1. Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: Conceptualizing Contexts
Lily Cho and Susan J. Henders
Part I Freedoms and Democracies
2. Love the Future: Ai Weiwei and Art for Human Rights
Alice Ming Wai Jim
3. "September": Seeing Religion and Rights in Burma
Alicia Turner
Part II War and Atrocity
4. Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights: Perspectives from D¿¿ng Thu H¿¿ng's Novel Without a Name
Van Nguyen-Marshall
5. Incendiary Material: Ethnicity and the Sri Lankan Civil Conflict in Anil's Ghost and Wilting Laughter
Arun Nedra Rodrigo
Part III Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies
6. Literary Lament of a Death Foretold: Tibetan Writers on the Forced Settlement of Herders
Françoise Robin
7. Reading Peasant Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam's "Sri Sumarah" and Bawuk"
Mary M. Young
8. The River, the People and the State(s): Padma Nadir Majhi as a Meditation on Ecology and Human Rights
Afsan Chowdhury
Part IV Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires
9. Abuse and Its Aftermath: Kim Saryang's "Into the Light," Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Yuasa Katsue's "Red Dates"
Theodore W. Goossen
10. Chasing the Monster: The Representation of Korean Residents in Japan and Human Rights in Oshima Nagisa's Film Death by Hanging
Jooyeon Rhee
11. Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Reading Shama Futehally's Reaching Bombay Central and Noor Zaheer's "A Life in Transit"
Arun P. Mukherjee
12. Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights Subject: The Macanese of Macau in Literature, Film, and Law
Susan J. Henders
Part V Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms
13. Human Rights and the Poetics of "Migritude": South Asian Diasporic Spoken Word
Sailaja Krishnamurti
14. Universal Rights and Separate Universes: Local/National Identities, Global Power, and the Modeling and Representing of Human Rights in Indonesian Performance Arts
Michael Bodden
Part VI Afterword
15. Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global Asia
Lily Cho
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Susan J. Henders is associate professor of political science at York University.
Lily Cho is associate professor of English at York University.
