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When the world thinks of Burma, it is often in relation to Nobel laureate and icon Aung San Suu Kyi. But beyond her is another world, one that complicates the overdetermination of Burma as a pariah state and myths about the "high status" of Southeast Asian women. Highlighting and critiquing this fraught terrain, Tamara C. Ho's Romancing Human Rights maps "Burmese women" as real and imagined figures across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. More than a recitation of "on the ground" facts, Ho's groundbreaking scholarship-the first monograph to examine Anglophone literature and dynamics of gender and race in relation to Burma-brings a critical lens to contemporary literature, film, and politics through the use of an innovative feminist/queer methodology. She crosses intellectual boundaries to illustrate how literary and gender analysis can contribute to discourses surrounding and informing human rights-and in the process offers a new voice in the debates about representation, racialization, migration, and spirituality.Romancing Human Rights demonstrates how Burmese women break out of prisons, both real and discursive, by writing themselves into being. Ho assembles an eclectic archive that includes George Orwell, Aung San Suu Kyi, critically acclaimed authors Ma Ma Lay and Wendy Law-Yone, and activist Zoya Phan. Her close readings of literature and politicized performances by women in Burma, the Burmese diaspora, and the United States illuminate their contributions as authors, cultural mediators, and practitioner-citizens. Using flexible, polyglot rhetorical tactics and embodied performances, these authors creatively articulate alter/native epistemologies-regionally situated knowledges and decolonizing viewpoints that interrogate and destabilize competing transnational hegemonies, such as U.S. moral imperialism and Asian militarized dictatorship.Weaving together the fictional and non-fictional, Ho's gendered analysis makes Romancing Human Rights a unique cultural studies project that bridges postcolonial studies, area studies, and critical race/ethnic studies-a must-read for those with an interest in fields of literature, Asian and Asian American studies, history, politics, religion, and women's and gender studies.
Burmese literature --- Women in literature. --- Public opinion --- Women, Burmese --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Public opinion. --- Aung San Suu Kyi --- Law-Yone, Wendy --- Ma Ma Leʺ, --- Political and social views. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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This volume explores the multifarious representational strategies used by contemporary writers to textualise memory and its friction areas through literary practices. By focusing on contemporary narratives in English from 1990 to the present, the essays in the collection delve into both the treatment of memory in literature and the view of literature as a medium of memory, paying special attention to major controversies attending the representation and (re)construction of individual, cultural and collective memories in the literary narratives published during the last few decades. By analysing texts written by authors of such diverse origins as Great Britain, South-Korea, the USA, Cuba, Australia, India, as well as Native-American Indian and African-American writers, the contributors to the collection analyse a good range of memory frictions —in connection with melancholic mourning, immigration, diaspora, genocide, perpetrator guilt, dialogic witnessing, memorialisation practices, inherited traumatic memories, sexual abuse, prostitution, etc.— through the recourse to various disciplines —such as psychoanalysis, ethics, (bio)politics, space theories, postcolonial studies, narratology, gender studies—, resulting in a book that is expected to make a ground-breaking contribution to a field whose possibilities have yet to be fully explored.
Cognitive psychology --- American literature --- Literature --- History as a science --- historiografie --- diaspora --- literatuur --- geheugen (mensen) --- seksueel misbruik --- Morrison, Toni --- Doctorow, E.L. --- McCann, Colum --- Machado, Eduardo --- Waldman, Amy --- Yoon, Paul --- Bird, Carmel --- Law-Yone, Wendy --- Erdrich, Louise --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 2010-2019
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Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Emigratie en immigratie in de literatuur --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- Emigration et immigration dans la litterature --- Immigrant in literature --- Immigranten in de literatuur --- Immigrants in literature --- Immigrés dans la littérature --- American fiction --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Kosinski, Jerzy --- Bellow, Saul --- Alvarez, Julia --- Mukherjee, Bharati --- García, Cristina --- Lee, Chang-rae --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Hegi, Ursula --- Danticat, Edwidge --- Cao, Lan --- Dressler, Mylène --- Law-Yone, Wendy --- Diaz, Junot --- 82.04 --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- Minority authors&delete&
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