Susan J. Henders is associate professor of political science at York University.Lily Cho is associate professor of English at York University.

Human Rights and the Arts is a valuable and welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on human rights issues and debates in Asia. . . .This volume shows not only that art can be a powerful tool for artists and activists to depict human rights violations and call for justice and recognition, especially important in non-democratic countries, but that art can be an excellent window for students and scholars who want to understand how human rights norms, contestations, and problems are experienced by individual citizens in Asia. One would hope that this volume would inspire further studies that probe deeper into different forms of art, the relationship between art and activism in different Asian countries, and the reception of these art works in Asia.

• 1. Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: Conceptualizing ContextsLily Cho and Susan J. HendersPart I Freedoms and Democracies2. Love the Future: Ai Weiwei and Art for Human RightsAlice Ming Wai Jim3. “September”: Seeing Religion and Rights in BurmaAlicia TurnerPart II War and Atrocity4. Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights: Perspectives from Duong Thu Huong’s Novel Without a Name Van Nguyen-Marshall5. Incendiary Material: Ethnicity and the Sri Lankan Civil Conflict in Anil's Ghost and Wilting LaughterArun Nedra RodrigoPart III Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies6. Literary Lament of a Death Foretold: Tibetan Writers on the Forced Settlement of HerdersFrançoise Robin7. Reading Peasant Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam’s “Sri Sumarah” and Bawuk”Mary M. Young8. The River, the People and the State(s): Padma Nadir Majhi as a Meditation on Ecology and Human RightsAfsan ChowdhuryPart IV Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires9. Abuse and Its Aftermath: Kim Saryang’s “Into the Light,” Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, and Yuasa Katsue’s “Red Dates”Theodore W. Goossen10. Chasing the Monster: The Representation of Korean Residents in Japan and Human Rights in Oshima Nagisa’s Film Death by HangingJooyeon Rhee11. Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Reading Shama Futehally’s Reaching Bombay Central and Noor Zaheer’s “A Life in Transit”Arun P. Mukherjee12. Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights Subject: The Macanese of Macau in Literature, Film, and LawSusan J. HendersPart V Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms13. Human Rights and the Poetics of “Migritude”: South Asian Diasporic Spoken WordSailaja Krishnamurti14. Universal Rights and Separate Universes: Local/National Identities, Global Power, and the Modeling and Representing of Human Rights in Indonesian Performance ArtsMichael BoddenPart VI Afterword15. Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global AsiaLily Cho

Susan J. Henders is associate professor of political science at York University.Lily Cho is associate professor of English at York University.

Human Rights and the Arts is a valuable and welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on human rights issues and debates in Asia. . . .This volume shows not only that art can be a powerful tool for artists and activists to depict human rights violations and call for justice and recognition, especially important in non-democratic countries, but that art can be an excellent window for students and scholars who want to understand how human rights norms, contestations, and problems are experienced by individual citizens in Asia. One would hope that this volume would inspire further studies that probe deeper into different forms of art, the relationship between art and activism in different Asian countries, and the reception of these art works in Asia.

• 1. Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: Conceptualizing ContextsLily Cho and Susan J. HendersPart I Freedoms and Democracies2. Love the Future: Ai Weiwei and Art for Human RightsAlice Ming Wai Jim3. “September”: Seeing Religion and Rights in BurmaAlicia TurnerPart II War and Atrocity4. Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights: Perspectives from Duong Thu Huong’s Novel Without a Name Van Nguyen-Marshall5. Incendiary Material: Ethnicity and the Sri Lankan Civil Conflict in Anil's Ghost and Wilting LaughterArun Nedra RodrigoPart III Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies6. Literary Lament of a Death Foretold: Tibetan Writers on the Forced Settlement of HerdersFrançoise Robin7. Reading Peasant Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam’s “Sri Sumarah” and Bawuk”Mary M. Young8. The River, the People and the State(s): Padma Nadir Majhi as a Meditation on Ecology and Human RightsAfsan ChowdhuryPart IV Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires9. Abuse and Its Aftermath: Kim Saryang’s “Into the Light,” Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, and Yuasa Katsue’s “Red Dates”Theodore W. Goossen10. Chasing the Monster: The Representation of Korean Residents in Japan and Human Rights in Oshima Nagisa’s Film Death by HangingJooyeon Rhee11. Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Reading Shama Futehally’s Reaching Bombay Central and Noor Zaheer’s “A Life in Transit”Arun P. Mukherjee12. Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights Subject: The Macanese of Macau in Literature, Film, and LawSusan J. HendersPart V Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms13. Human Rights and the Poetics of “Migritude”: South Asian Diasporic Spoken WordSailaja Krishnamurti14. Universal Rights and Separate Universes: Local/National Identities, Global Power, and the Modeling and Representing of Human Rights in Indonesian Performance ArtsMichael BoddenPart VI Afterword15. Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global AsiaLily Cho

Susan J. Henders is associate professor of political science at York University.Lily Cho is associate professor of English at York University.

Human Rights and the Arts is a valuable and welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on human rights issues and debates in Asia. . . .This volume shows not only that art can be a powerful tool for artists and activists to depict human rights violations and call for justice and recognition, especially important in non-democratic countries, but that art can be an excellent window for students and scholars who want to understand how human rights norms, contestations, and problems are experienced by individual citizens in Asia. One would hope that this volume would inspire further studies that probe deeper into different forms of art, the relationship between art and activism in different Asian countries, and the reception of these art works in Asia.

• 1. Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: Conceptualizing ContextsLily Cho and Susan J. HendersPart I Freedoms and Democracies2. Love the Future: Ai Weiwei and Art for Human RightsAlice Ming Wai Jim3. “September”: Seeing Religion and Rights in BurmaAlicia TurnerPart II War and Atrocity4. Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights: Perspectives from Duong Thu Huong’s Novel Without a Name Van Nguyen-Marshall5. Incendiary Material: Ethnicity and the Sri Lankan Civil Conflict in Anil's Ghost and Wilting LaughterArun Nedra RodrigoPart III Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies6. Literary Lament of a Death Foretold: Tibetan Writers on the Forced Settlement of HerdersFrançoise Robin7. Reading Peasant Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam’s “Sri Sumarah” and Bawuk”Mary M. Young8. The River, the People and the State(s): Padma Nadir Majhi as a Meditation on Ecology and Human RightsAfsan ChowdhuryPart IV Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires9. Abuse and Its Aftermath: Kim Saryang’s “Into the Light,” Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, and Yuasa Katsue’s “Red Dates”Theodore W. Goossen10. Chasing the Monster: The Representation of Korean Residents in Japan and Human Rights in Oshima Nagisa’s Film Death by HangingJooyeon Rhee11. Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Reading Shama Futehally’s Reaching Bombay Central and Noor Zaheer’s “A Life in Transit”Arun P. Mukherjee12. Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights Subject: The Macanese of Macau in Literature, Film, and LawSusan J. HendersPart V Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms13. Human Rights and the Poetics of “Migritude”: South Asian Diasporic Spoken WordSailaja Krishnamurti14. Universal Rights and Separate Universes: Local/National Identities, Global Power, and the Modeling and Representing of Human Rights in Indonesian Performance ArtsMichael BoddenPart VI Afterword15. Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global AsiaLily Cho