History on the run : secrecy, fugitivity, and Hmong refugee epistemologies
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History on the run : secrecy, fugitivity, and Hmong refugee epistemologies
Duke University Press, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-249) and index
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内容説明
During its secret war in Laos (1961–1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees in the United States to theorize refugee histories and secrecy, in particular those of the Hmong. Vang conceptualizes these histories as fugitive histories, as they move and are carried by people who move. Charting the incomplete archives of the war made secret through redacted US state documents, ethnography, film, and literature, Vang shows how Hmong refugees tell their stories in ways that exist separately from narratives of U.S. empire and that cannot be traditionally archived. In so doing, Vang outlines a methodology for writing histories that foreground refugee epistemologies despite systematic attempts to silence those histories.
目次
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Lost Bag and the Refugee Archive 1
1. Secrecy as Knowledge 27
2. Missing Things: State Secrets and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Laos 57
3. The Refugee Soldier: A Critique of Recognition and Citizenship in the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997 93
4. The Terrorist Ally: The Case against General Vang Pao 117
5. The Refugee Grandmother: Silence as Presence in The Latehomecomer and Gran Torino 145
Epilogue. Geographic Stories for Refugee Return 179
Notes 189
Bibliography 231
Index 251
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