TY - BOOK ID - 145576152 TI - Writing human rights : the political imaginaries of writers of color PY - 2017 SN - 9780816697052 9780816697069 PB - Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Human rights in literature. KW - Politics and literature KW - Minority authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145576152 AB - Crystal Parikh contends that unlike humanitarianism, which views its objects as victims, human rights provide avenues for the creation of political subjects. Affiliating transnational works of American literature with decolonization, socialist, and other political struggles in the global south, she illuminates a human rights critique of idealized American rights and freedoms that have been globalized in the twenty-first century. ER -