Title: Romancing human rights : gender, intimacy, and power between Burma and the West /
Authors: Ho, Tamara C., 1969-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Ma Ma Leʺ,; Law-Yone, Wendy Criticism and interpretation.; Aung San Suu Kyi Political and social views.; Women, Burmese Public opinion.; Public opinion English-speaking countries.; Women in literature; Burmese literature Women authors History and criticism.; Burmannia.
Abstract: "Romancing Human Rights demonstrates how Burmese women break out of prisons, both real and discursive, by writing themselves into being"--Jacket.
Contents: 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.