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Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
Trinh T. Minh-Ha
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Description for Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 448.
In this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, or to China's occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. She also takes up the shifting dynamics of peoples' resistance to acts of militarism and surveillance as well as social media and its capacity ... Read more
In this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, or to China's occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. She also takes up the shifting dynamics of peoples' resistance to acts of militarism and surveillance as well as social media and its capacity ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
447g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823271108
SKU
V9780823271108
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About Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer, composer and Professor of Rhetoric and of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes numerous books, such as D-Passage: The Digital Way; Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism, and the Boundary Event; Cinema Interval; and Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism, as well as eight feature-length films, ... Read more
Reviews for Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
A searing trek through our bellicose and warring times, Lovecidal makes an impressive, laser-like and passionate plea to explore what is possible now for humans as living, feeling, and thinking beings.
-Renee Green
author of Other Planes of There
Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared is filled with provocation and guided by evocation. Encompassing various forms ... Read more
-Renee Green
author of Other Planes of There
Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared is filled with provocation and guided by evocation. Encompassing various forms ... Read more