Trauma, precarity and war memories in Asian American writings
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Trauma, precarity and war memories in Asian American writings
(Palgrave pivot)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Departing from Jacques Derrida's appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book examines writings that deal with war trauma memories in Asian-American communities. Seeing war experiences and their associative diasporas and affects as the core and axis, it considers the multifarious poetics and politics of minority trauma writings, and posits a possible interpretive framework for contemporary Asian-American writings, including those written by Julie Otsuka, Joseph Craig Danner, Monique Truong, Nguyen Viet Thanh, Janice Lowe Shinebourne, and Andre Lamontagne. As these writings contain works regarding Japanese-American, Indo-Chinese Guyanese, Chinese Quebecois, Vietnamese exiles/refugees, and Vietnam-American experiences, this book presents a broad cross-cultural view on migration and minority issues triggered by wars and precarious conditions, as the diversified experiences examined here epitomize an intricate historical intimacy across four continents: Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Section I: Japanese (Post)-Internment Narratives.- Against Historical Amnesia: Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine and Buddha in the Attic.- The Politics of War Memories: Remembering the Japanese Internment in Joseph Craig Danner's The Fires of Edgarville.- Section II: The Vietnam War and Refugee Writings.- Monique Truong's Bitter in the Mouth: A Gothic and Liminal Narrative of Trauma.- "All Wars Were Fought Twice": Viet Thanh Nguyen and Refugee Trauma Memories.- Section III: Postmemory and Transoceanic Coolitude.- Beyond Precarity and Trauma: Janice Lowe Shinebourne's The Last Ship.- Post 911 Trauma in Janice Lowe Shinebourne's Chinese Women.- In the Shadow of Modernity: The Search for Chinese Ghosts in Andre Lamontagne's Les fossoyeurs: Dans le memoire de Quebec (Gravediggers).
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