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Author Klaas, Sunčica, author.

Title The Americanization of human rights : Iranian, African, and Chinese lives in American autobiography / Sunčica Klaas.

Publication Info. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 269 pages) : maps.
text file
Series American studies, 0178-1987 ; volume 290
American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 290.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Beginnings; 2 "Women without Men"; 2.1 The Face of Iran; 2.1.1 Managing the Archives; 2.2.2 Reading beyond ,Lolita'; 2.2 "A Truth Universally Unacknowledged"; 2.2.1 White Torture, Dark Lies; 2.2.2 Dark Skins, White Hearts; 2.3 "There is Nothing Political in American Literature"; 2.3.1 A View into the Room; 2.3.2 "A Room with a View"; 3 "This Time for Africa"; 3.1 "More than Humanitarianism"; 3.2 The Age of Innocence; 3.2.1 Mother Wendy; 3.2.2 Once upon a Time in the Never-ever-land; 3.2.3 In the National Embrace
3.2.4 "The Transparent Eye-Ball"3.3 Children at Work; 3.3.1 "Democracy and the Foreigner"; 3.3.2 Democracy and the Orphan; 3.3.3 The Adopted Bonds of Responsibility; 3.4 Beyond This Point Are Only Lions; 4 MADE IN CHINA; 4.1 "Winds of Change"; 4.1.1 "The End of History"; 4.1.2 Epistemic Communities; 4.2 "I Love Beijing in the Springtime, I Love Beijing in June"; 4.2.1 "The Tank Man"; 4.2.2 The Romance of the Democratic Covenant; 4.3 "The Woman Warrior"; 4.3.1 Getting Started; 4.3.2 "Human Rights Are Women's Rights and Women's Rights Are Human Rights"; 4.4 "T.S. 1989."; 4.4.1 "Norm Entrepreneurs"4.4.2 Made in USA; 5 Loose Ends; Bibliography; Backcover.
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Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Human rights in literature.
Human rights in literature.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Chinese Americans.
Iranian Americans -- Biography.
Iranian Americans.
Sudanese Americans -- Biography.
Sudanese Americans.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Klaas, Sunčica. Americanization of human rights. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2018] 9783825368180 3825368181 (OCoLC)1039809725
ISBN 9783825377595 (electronic book)
3825377598 (electronic book)
9783825368180
3825368181
3825368181
9783825368180
Standard No. 9783825368180