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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Includes index
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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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