From Orwell to Rambo: interracial affiliations and transnational antagonisms in the age of human rights -- The making of a modern Burmese wife: gendering the local and possessive investments in masculinity in Ma Ma Lay's Not out of hate -- "Truth has a witness": postcolonial adjudication, interracial passing, and human rights -- Performative politics of Aung San Suu Kyi (or papa's baby and mama's maybe) -- Wendy Law-Yone: Burmese displacement and co-occupancy in the United States -- Conclusion: diaspora and daughters.
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-175) and index.
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Author
Ho, Tamara C., 1969-
Title
Romancing human rights [electronic resource] : gender, intimacy, and power between Burma and the West / Tamara C. Ho.
Imprint
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu in Association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles, [2015]
Series
Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies
Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-175) and index.