LA Review of Books: Writing Human Rights

Mention of Writing Human Rights by Crystal Parikh

Reading works by American writers of color through the lens of human rights

The new family forms that emerge from this literature, as Crystal Parikh argues in Writing Human Rights (2018), foreground new kinship models which “exploit just how ‘strange’ the child is before the law” and which allow “the vulnerable, desirous, unpredictable, demanding child arrives in her own right.”

 

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