Session Details

Sunday, 09 January

681. Writing Human Rights: Asian American Contexts

8:30–9:45 a.m., Atrium I, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Asian American Literature

Presiding: Anita Mannur, Miami Univ., Oxford

1. “Cold War Human Rights: Le Ly Hayslip’s When Heaven and Earth Changed Places,” Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs

2. “Come Almost Home: Human Rights and the Minor Subjects of Asian American Literature,” Crystal A. Parikh, New York Univ.

3. “Who’s Helping Whom? Satirizing International Relief Efforts in Tony D’Souza’s Whiteman,” Stephen Sohn, Stanford Univ.

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