Crystal Parikh
Biographic Data
| ID | 793709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Crystal Parikh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Crystal |
| FAMILY NAME | Parikh |
| SIGNATURE | PARIKH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The End of Our World”
This essay considers how a transnational feminist literary practice, one that proceeds through the modality of rereading and rewriting, opens up the meaning and possibilities for the right to self-determination, against and beyond the settler state sovereignty into which it has hardened. It examines the 1995 short story “My Elizabeth,” by the Arab American writer Diana Abu-Jaber, as an unexpected source of political theory, which rewrites self-de…
Bringing Human Rights to Bear in American Literature
The travels and fate of human rights with respect to American literature and culture have been characterized by distance and disavowal. Human rights are regularly understood to be that which others, elsewhere are in need of, and which – sometimes – Americans deliver unto them, whether in the guise of humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), religious missionary enterprises, or military interventions. After all, the institution of the in…
Eugenic Feminism
Reviewed by: Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India by Asha Nadkarni Crystal Parikh (bio) Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India, by Asha Nadkarni. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 264pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN: 978-0-8166-8993-4. As a conceptual framework and theoretical approach, transnational feminism has provided Asian American studies a welcome method by which…
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural movements affecting the development of Asian American literature. Wri…
Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature
Perpetrating ourselves
This article argues for an expanded and more nuanced conception of the figure of the ‘perpetrator' than currently exists with respect to human rights. It examines the poetry of the diasporic Chinese-Indonesian writer Li-Young Lee and the postwar history of political violence in postcolonial Indonesia, in relation to the ethical theory of Emmanuel Levinas. By considering how relations of responsibility extend beyond individual agents of violence, …
Come Almost Home”
This article seeks to reconceptualize the conventional distinction between the moral responsibilities of humanitarianism and the juridical claims of human rights by describing a more radical understanding of ethical responsibility, what Emmanuel Levinas describes as a “being for the Other.” This ethical perspective can revitalize a human rights politics that prepares us for the arrival of the subject of human rights (in contrast to the administer…
Being Well
Human rights scholars have described the “right to health” as a key component of what is known as the “second generation” of human rights. Conceived of as a “positive liberty,” because it requires active intervention on the part of states, the right to health has not been traditionally recognized within the United States as a “natural right.” By examining a short story cycle from Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri, this essay examines the way i…
Regular Revolutions
This essay examines two novels by Dominican American author Julia Alvarez, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. By undertaking a transnational feminist reading practice, the author explicates the novels’ critique of the political constructions of the Latin American Third World as “deprived” and “depraved.” Alvarez’s work traces how these representations have been constitutive of a North American liberal femi…
An Ethics of Betrayal
This book investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, the book argues that the minority subject is obligated in a primary, preontological, and irrecusable relation of responsibility to the Other. Episodes of betrayal and treason allegorize th…
An Ethics of Betrayal
In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh argues that the minority subject is obligated in a primary, preontological, and irrecusable relation of responsibility to the Other. Episodes of betra…
Teaching Texts
Teaching TextsInstitution and Discipline, Part 2 Yoonmee Chang (bio), Crystal Parikh (bio), Jane Naomi Iwamura (bio), and Kent Ono (bio) Introduction Yoonmee Chang In the last issue of JAAS, we began a discussion about the institutional place of Asian American Studies (AAS). A group of Asian Americanists from universities with limited resources and few Asian Americans on campus and in the local communities talked about the challenges, new and fam…
The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean
Book Review| March 01 2006 The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950; The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives; America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945. The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950. By Mitali P. Wong and Zia Hasan. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarla…
Blue Hawaii
ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST important and invigorating recent developments in minority discourse theory has been the concept of "racial melancholia," according to which, social denigration and loss is incorporated as a constituent element of psychic existence. Racial melancholia is a mode by which the subject holds on to, grieves over, and cherishes what had been forcibly renounced. It provides a methodological lens to view the thorny and recurring …
Ethics after Idealism
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 2, Number 3, October 1999
Blue Hawaii
ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST important and invigorating recent developments in minority discourse theory has been the concept of "racial melancholia," according to which, social denigration and loss is incorporated as a constituent element of psychic existence. Racial melancholia is a mode by which the subject holds on to, grieves over, and cherishes what had been forcibly renounced. It provides a methodological lens to view the thorny and recurring …
Perpetrating ourselves
This article argues for an expanded and more nuanced conception of the figure of the ‘perpetrator' than currently exists with respect to human rights. It examines the poetry of the diasporic Chinese-Indonesian writer Li-Young Lee and the postwar history of political violence in postcolonial Indonesia, in relation to the ethical theory of Emmanuel Levinas. By considering how relations of responsibility extend beyond individual agents of violence, …
Ethics after Idealism
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 2, Number 3, October 1999
Blue Hawaii
ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST important and invigorating recent developments in minority discourse theory has been the concept of "racial melancholia," according to which, social denigration and loss is incorporated as a constituent element of psychic existence. Racial melancholia is a mode by which the subject holds on to, grieves over, and cherishes what had been forcibly renounced. It provides a methodological lens to view the thorny and recurring …
Teaching Texts
Teaching TextsInstitution and Discipline, Part 2 Yoonmee Chang (bio), Crystal Parikh (bio), Jane Naomi Iwamura (bio), and Kent Ono (bio) Introduction Yoonmee Chang In the last issue of JAAS, we began a discussion about the institutional place of Asian American Studies (AAS). A group of Asian Americanists from universities with limited resources and few Asian Americans on campus and in the local communities talked about the challenges, new and fam…
The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean
Book Review| March 01 2006 The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950; The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives; America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945. The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950. By Mitali P. Wong and Zia Hasan. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarla…
An Ethics of Betrayal
This book investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, the book argues that the minority subject is obligated in a primary, preontological, and irrecusable relation of responsibility to the Other. Episodes of betrayal and treason allegorize th…
An Ethics of Betrayal
In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh argues that the minority subject is obligated in a primary, preontological, and irrecusable relation of responsibility to the Other. Episodes of betra…
Regular Revolutions
This essay examines two novels by Dominican American author Julia Alvarez, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. By undertaking a transnational feminist reading practice, the author explicates the novels’ critique of the political constructions of the Latin American Third World as “deprived” and “depraved.” Alvarez’s work traces how these representations have been constitutive of a North American liberal femi…
Come Almost Home”
This article seeks to reconceptualize the conventional distinction between the moral responsibilities of humanitarianism and the juridical claims of human rights by describing a more radical understanding of ethical responsibility, what Emmanuel Levinas describes as a “being for the Other.” This ethical perspective can revitalize a human rights politics that prepares us for the arrival of the subject of human rights (in contrast to the administer…
Being Well
Human rights scholars have described the “right to health” as a key component of what is known as the “second generation” of human rights. Conceived of as a “positive liberty,” because it requires active intervention on the part of states, the right to health has not been traditionally recognized within the United States as a “natural right.” By examining a short story cycle from Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri, this essay examines the way i…
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural movements affecting the development of Asian American literature. Wri…
Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature
Perpetrating ourselves
This article argues for an expanded and more nuanced conception of the figure of the ‘perpetrator' than currently exists with respect to human rights. It examines the poetry of the diasporic Chinese-Indonesian writer Li-Young Lee and the postwar history of political violence in postcolonial Indonesia, in relation to the ethical theory of Emmanuel Levinas. By considering how relations of responsibility extend beyond individual agents of violence, …
Eugenic Feminism
Reviewed by: Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India by Asha Nadkarni Crystal Parikh (bio) Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India, by Asha Nadkarni. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 264pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN: 978-0-8166-8993-4. As a conceptual framework and theoretical approach, transnational feminism has provided Asian American studies a welcome method by which…
Bringing Human Rights to Bear in American Literature
The travels and fate of human rights with respect to American literature and culture have been characterized by distance and disavowal. Human rights are regularly understood to be that which others, elsewhere are in need of, and which – sometimes – Americans deliver unto them, whether in the guise of humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), religious missionary enterprises, or military interventions. After all, the institution of the in…
The End of Our World”
This essay considers how a transnational feminist literary practice, one that proceeds through the modality of rereading and rewriting, opens up the meaning and possibilities for the right to self-determination, against and beyond the settler state sovereignty into which it has hardened. It examines the 1995 short story “My Elizabeth,” by the Arab American writer Diana Abu-Jaber, as an unexpected source of political theory, which rewrites self-de…
Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works)