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Record Nr.

UNISA996599572703316

Autore

Nguyen-Vo Thu-Huong <1962->

Titolo

Almost Futures : Sovereignty and Refuge at World's End

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press, 2024

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

©2024

ISBN

0-520-39446-1

9780520394469

0520394461

9780520394452

0520394453

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Critical refugee studies ; ; 6

Soggetti

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Refugees

Vietnamese - Social conditions

Vietnamese Americans - Social conditions

Sovereignty

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--