Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared

by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Overview

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 to inform and mobilize citizens around the world.

At once an engaging treatise and a creative gesture, Lovecidal probes the physical and psychic conditions of the world and shows us a society that is profoundly heartsick. Taking up with those who march both as and for the oppressed—who walk with the disappeared to help carry them forward—Trinh T. Minh-ha engages the spiritual and affective dimensions of a civilization organized around the rubrics of nonstop governmental subjugation, economic austerity, and highly technologized military conflict. In doing so, she clears a path for us to walk upon. Along with our every step, the world of the disappeared lives on.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823271108
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	07/18/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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, including Forgetting Vietnam, Night Passage, The Fourth Dimension, Shoot for the Contents, and Surname Viet Given Name Nam.

Table of Contents

Somewhere in the Process

Blind Energy

How to Write an Ending?
Liquid Denouement
Enhanced Security: "He Won"
Exiting: "The Dark Night Policy"

Specter of Vietnam
The Smell of Victory
Screen Replay

Twilight Walk

The Matter of War
The Oil Stain
Deep in the Red
"When Will They Be Ready, Really?"
Small Cell Large Cell
[Living Dead or Suicided? Please Choose]

Between Victor and Victor
The Strength to Lift A Hair
Twin Victories
A Legacy of Inflation

She, The Wayfarer
Walking with The Disappeared
Circle of Love: Pink, White and Black
[The Red-Blue Divide]

Thriving on a D-Stroll
A Hole in the Heart
Virtual Monument Censored
Miles of Strangeness
Light Weight

The Mole's Empire: Power of The Unseen
The Other Victory
[Terrorist Sightings]
In-humanity: Down Where It Hurts

Feeling The Way Out
The Crawl to Peace
When The General Cries
Washington's Visual Scar

The World is Watching
Lotus in Tears
"I am the Reality"
In the Night of Becoming
Small Acts on The Roof of The World

Walk for Rain

The New Rebels
The Blank Page
"Sensitive Cases"

Displaced, Dispossessed, Disappeared
The Great Uprooting
Sea of Immigrants
Rising From Mud and Muck
[The Odor of Fear ]

Interval of Resistance
The Empty Chair
The Image Under Erasure
Lotus Bomb(ed)

The Screensaver's Light
The Ultimate Protest
True Person of No Rank
[Snake in The Can]
A Bridge, A Boat, A Spark of Plenty

This Sky, Which Is Not Blue

Acknowledgment
Notes
Index

Editorial Reviews

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.

author of Other Planes of There - Renée Green

Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared is filled with provocation and guided by evocation. Encompassing various forms (poetry, treatise, memoir, and historiography) and capaciously conceived, Trinh T. Minh-ha’s contemplation of war, state-authorized violence, state-sanctioned ‘security,’ and international amnesia is skillfully tempered by observations of beauty, humanity, and resistance. To say that this is an important book is in many ways an understatement; rather, Lovecidal is transformative.

author of War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work - Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

"Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared is filled with provocation and guided by evocation. It is a work that is wonderfully difficult to categorize because it moves so eloquently through multiple genres, frames, and places. Encompassing various formspoetry, treatise, memoir, historiographyand capaciously conceived, Minh-ha's contemplation of war, state-authorized violence, state-sanctioned 'security,' and international amnesia is skillfully tempered by observations of beauty, humanity, and resistance."-Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut

"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."-Renée Green, author of Other Planes of There

"Ours is a lovesick world, but Lovecidal invites us to take part in its cure, walking alongside Minh-ha, Las Madres and other dissidents who see love as a mighty, creative and transformative act."--London School of Economics Review of Books

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