Human rights in the Americas / edited by Mar©Ưa Herrera-Sobek, Francisco A. Lomel©Ư, Luz Ang©♭lica Kirschner.

SeriesInterAmerican research
Contents Introduction : human rights in the Americas / Luz Ang©♭lica Kirschner, Mar©Ưa Herrera-Sobek, and Francisco A. Lomel©Ư -- Human rights in the Americas : a stony path / Josef Raab -- Constructing rights and empires in the early Americas : the parallel reception histories of Carlos de Sig©ơenza y G©đngora and Cotton Mather / Philipp Reisner -- Maps of violence, maps of resistance, or, Where is home in the Americas? / Roland Walter -- The human rights situation in Central America through the lens of literary representation and violence / Xaver Daniel Hergenr©œther -- Rebellion, repression, reform : U.S. Marines in the Dominican Republic / Breanne Robertson -- Black women writers in the Americas : the struggle for human rights in the context of coloniality / Isabel Caldeira -- Autobiography, fiction, and racial hatred : representation in Jamaica Kincaid's See now then / Gon©ʹalo Cholant -- The rebirth of the myth of the American hero and feminism / Rita Santos -- Dancing resistance, controlling singing and right to name heritage : Mexican indigenous autonomy, p'urepecha, practices, and United Nations / Ruth Hellier-Tinoco -- Carey McWilliams's activism and the democratic human rights tradition / Mar©Ưa Jos©♭ Canelo -- The ontogenesis of fear in H©♭ctor Tobar's The barbarian nurseries / Alexander Ullman -- Brazilian quilombos : casta©Ưnho and its struggle for human rights / Wellington Marinho de Lira -- Cap©Ł Prieto and the decolonial Afro-Latin(a/o) American imagination / Luz Ang©♭lica Kirschner -- 'We got Latin soul' : transbarrio dialogues and Afro-Latin identity formation in New York's Puerto Rican community during the age of Black Power (1966-1972) / Matti Steinitz -- From racism to speciesism : the question of the freedom of the other in the works of J.M. Coetzee and Jure Detela / Marjetka Gole¿� Kau♯œi♯œ -- To be or not to be human : the plasticity of posthuman rights / Nicole Sparling Barco.
Abstract "This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields. Taking 1492 as a point of departure, the text explores Eurocentric historiographies of human rights and offer a more complete understanding of the genealogy of the human rights discourse and its many manifestations in the Americas"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2020044699
ISBN9780367636913 (hardback)
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