Lovecidal : Walking with the Disappeared / Trinh T. Minh-ha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minh-ha, Trinh T., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society.

War.

State-sponsored terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

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—who walk with the disappeared to help carry them forward—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 us to walk upon. Along with our every step, the world of the disappeared lives on.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Somewhere in the Process

Blind Energy

How to Write an Ending?

Specter of Vietnam

Twilight Walk

The Matter of War

Between Victor and Victor

She, the Wayfarer

Thriving on a D-stroll

The Mole’s Empire

Feeling the Way Out

The World is Watching

Walk for Rain

The New Rebels

Displaced, Dispossessed, Disappeared

Interval of Resistance

The Screensaver’s Light

This Sky Which is Not Blue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780823271122

0823271129

OCLC:

1096766410