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Lovecidal : walking with the disappeared / Trinh T. Minh-Ha.
LIBRA HM554 .T75 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trinh, T. Minh-Ha (Thi Minh-Ha), 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and society.
- Physical Description:
- 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- In This New Work, Renowned Feminist Filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, or to China's occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. She also takes up the shifting dynamics of peoples' resistance to acts of militarism and surveillance as well as social media and its capacity to inform and mobilize citizens around the world. At once an engaging treatise and a creative gesture, Lovecidal probes the physical and psychic conditions of the world and shows us a society that is profoundly heartsick. Taking up with those who march both as and for the oppressed, Trinh T. Minh-ha engages the spiritual and affective dimensions of a civilization organized around the rubrics of nonstop governmental subjugation, economic austerity, and highly technologized military conflict. In doing so, she clears a path for ns to walk upon. Along with our every step, the world of the disappeared lives on. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Somewhere in the Process 1
- Blind Energy 2
- How to write an ending? 5
- Liquid Denouement 8
- Enhanced Security: "He Won" 16
- Exiting: "The Dark Night Policy" 26
- Specter of Vietnam 35
- The Smell of Victory 37
- Screen Replay 42
- Twilight walk 49
- The matter of war 55
- The Oil Stain 57
- Deep in the Red 62
- "When Will They Be Ready, Really?" 65
- Small Cell, Large Cell 70
- Between victor and victor 77
- The Strength to Lift a Hair 80
- Twin Victories 87
- A Legacy of Inflation 89
- She, the wayfarer 93
- Walking with the Disappeared 96
- Circle of Love: Pink, White, and Black 100
- Thriving on a D-stroll 109
- A Hole in the Heart 111
- Virtual Monument Censored 113
- Miles of Strangeness 116
- Light Weight 120
- The mole's empire 121
- The Other Victory 123
- Power of the Unseen 131
- Feeling the way out 135
- The Crawl to Peace 137
- When the General Cries 141
- Washington's Visual Scar 145
- The world is watching 149
- Lotus in Tears 151
- "I Am the Reality" 154
- In the Night of Becoming 160
- Small Acts on the Roof of the World 167
- Walk for rain 179
- The new rebels 187
- The Blank Page 189
- "Sensitive Cases" 193
- Displaced, dispossessed, disappeared 203
- The Great Uprooting 205
- Sea of Immigrants 210
- Rising from Mud and Muck 214
- Interval of resistance 225
- The Empty Chair 227
- The Image under Erasure 231
- Lotus Bomb(ed) 235
- The screensaver's light 243
- The Ultimate Protest 245
- True Person of No Rank 249
- A Bridge, a Boat, a Spark of Plenty 256
- This sky, which is not blue 267.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0823271099
- 9780823271092
- 9780823271108
- 0823271102
- OCLC:
- 918594392
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