Reparations and the Human - Couverture souple

Eng, David L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1478031867 ISBN 13 : 9781478031864

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invoked in graphic terms the specter of total human destruction. In response, a new international order of reparations and human rights arose from the ashes of WWII. This legal regime sought to subrogate the sovereignty of the nation-state in order to defend the sovereignty of the human being. While the Holocaust’s history is settled—Nazis were perpetrators and Jews were victims—there remains little historical consensus as to the victims and perpetrators of the atomic bombings. In Reparations and the Human, David L. Eng investigates a history of reparations across the Transpacific. He analyzes how concepts of reparation established during colonial settlement and the European Enlightenment shape contemporary configurations of the human and human rights, establishing who can be recognized as victims, who must be seen as perpetrators, and who deserves repair. As demands for reparations now occupy center stage in debates concerning unresolved legacies of dispossession and Transatlantic slavery, Eng considers how the Cold War Transpacific provides a limit case for the politics of repair and definitions of the human.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America and coauthor of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans, all also published by Duke University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478031867
• ISBN 13: 9781478031864
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
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• Personne responsable: non disponible