Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction: The U.S. Good Life, the UN World, and the Human Rights Record
UN International Bill of Human Rights; Toni Morrison, Beloved
1. Other Humanities: The Bandung Spirit and the Right to Self-Determination
UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; Ernest Gaines, A Gathering of Old Men; Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
2. “Come Almost Home”: The Impossible Subject of Human Rights
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters; Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life
3. “A Globe within Him”: Security at the Borderline of War and Torture
UN Convention against Torture; Susan Choi, The Foreign Student
4. Regular Revolutions: The Feminist Travels of Human Rights
UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; Julia Alvarez, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies
5. Being Well: Minor Subjects and the Right to Health
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth; Ana Castillo, So Far from God
Conclusion: An Aesthetics of Kin and the Rights of the Child
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Aimee Phan, We Should Never Meet
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index