Jinah Kim

Postcolonial Grief

The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001355
• ISBN-10: 1478001356
• Artikelnr.: 52531980

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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