Kim Postcolonial Grief

The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0279-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Jinah Kim explores Asian and Asian American texts from 1945 to the present that mourn the loss of those killed by U.S. empire building and militarism in the Pacific, showing how the refusal to heal from imperial violence may help generate a transformative antiracist and decolonial politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Jinah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Mourning Empire 1
1. Melancholy Violence: Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth and Hisaye Yamamato's "A Fire in Fontana" 23
2. Haunting Absence: Racial Cognitive Mapping, Interregnum, and the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 41
3. Transpacific Noir, Dying Colonialism 66
4. Destined for Death: Antigone along the Pacific Rim 88
Epilogue. Watery Graves 110
Notes 115
Bibliography 153
Index 175

Über Autor(innen)

Jinah Kim is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge.