Almost Futures : Sovereignty and Refuge at World's End

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong, 1962-

Series:

Critical refugee studies ; 6.

Critical refugee studies ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Refugees.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnamese--Social conditions.

Vietnamese.

Vietnamese Americans--Social conditions.

Vietnamese Americans.

Sovereignty.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages) : color illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Sovereignty and refuge at world's end

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2024

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Almost Futures looks to the people who pay the heaviest price for progress throughout war and capitalist globalization-particularly Vietnamese citizens and refugees-for glimpses of ways to exist at the end of our future's promise. In order to learn from the lives destroyed (and lived) amid our inheritance of modern humanism and its uses of time, Almost Futures asks us to recognize new spectrums of feeling: the poetic, in the grief of protesters dispossessed by land speculation; the allegorical, in assembly line workers' laughter and sorrow; the iterant and intimate, in the visual witnessing of revolutionary and state killing; the haunting, in refugee writing on the death of their nation; and the irreconcilable, in refugees' inhabitation of history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : almost

The sovereignty of grief : land protest and speculative time

Assemblages of laughter and sorrow : women workers and allegorical fragments

Iterant remains : witnessing sovereign violence

History interrupted : the death of South Vietnam and refugee hauntings

Untimely habitation : irreconcilability and refugee memory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9780520394469

0520394461

OCLC:

1428945476