Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2039018
Wendy Cheng
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2033583
Rebecca H. Hogue
ABSTRACT This essay explores U.S. Cold War medical discourses after nuclear detonations in the Marshall Islands (1946–1958) in conversation with contemporary Marshallese poetry. In a process I term “nuclear normalizing,” I show how the U.S. government repeatedly obscures the causal relationships of their nuclear detonations regarding Indigenous experiences of illness, specifically in Project 4.1 and two Department of Energy pamphlets. Poet Kathy Jetn¯il-Kijiner rehistoricizes these imperial narratives of radiation by evoking Indigenous ecological knowledges to promote intergenerational healing.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2028533
P. Su
ABSTRACT After the end of war in Vietnam, Vietnamese Americans debate the balance between artistic freedom and Cold War politics. How do community arts organizers continue their work after anticommunist backlash? To answer this, I conducted participant observation and interviews with organizers of the Vietnamese International Film Festival in California. I analyze how children of refugees inherit the legacies of war outside of the family setting. Through community arts organizing, Vietnamese Americans come to understand their ethnic nation as a militarized imagined family. This view demands deference to the figure of the male refugee soldier – at the expense of the daughterly figure.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2036565
A. Flores
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2038042
Patricia Nguyễn
ABSTRACT After the Vietnam/American War, an estimated 1–2.5 million people were imprisoned in reeducation camps or trại học tập cải tạo with no formal charges or trials and 165,000 people were estimated to have died in the camps either from malnourishment, disease, or execution. In this article, I analyze my father Tam Van Nguyen’s oral history of reeducation camps with excerpts from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s memorandum to Amnesty International. I do so in order to theorize states of suspension as an embodied analytic that further draws on Frantz Fanon’s discussion of the importance of “knowing the strength of their own muscles” in national struggle to further push the boundaries of what freedom can feel like in the body. I locate states of suspension at the crux between three states of being: deprivation and indulgence, citizenship and criminality, and life and death, as they are enacted through the techniques of torture and punishment, performances of sovereign power, and modes of bodily capture. This research seeks to nuance Cold War dichotomies of promises of freedom by U.S. liberal war and Marxist-Leninist communist revolution to challenge our relationship to nation-state building as the ultimate achievement of national independence.
越南/美国战争后,估计有100万至250万人被关押在再教育营或trại học tập cải tạo,没有正式的指控或审判,估计有16.5万人死于营养不良、疾病或处决。在这篇文章中,我分析了我父亲Tam Van Nguyen关于再教育营的口述历史,并摘录了越南社会主义共和国给国际特赦组织的备忘录。我这样做是为了将悬浮状态理论化,作为一种具体化的分析,进一步借鉴弗朗茨·法农(Frantz Fanon)关于在民族斗争中“了解自己肌肉的力量”的重要性的讨论,以进一步推动自由在身体中可以感受到的界限。我将暂停状态定位于三种存在状态之间的关键:剥夺与放纵,公民与犯罪,生与死,因为它们是通过酷刑和惩罚的技术,主权权力的表现,以及身体捕获的模式来实现的。本研究试图通过美国自由主义战争和马克思列宁主义共产主义革命对冷战中自由承诺的二分法进行细微的区分,以挑战我们将民族国家建设作为民族独立的最终成就的关系。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2036561
C. Baik
{"title":"Listening to a Photograph","authors":"C. Baik","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2022.2036561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2022.2036561","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"371 - 372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42181272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1990001
Marimas Hosan Mostiller
ABSTRACT Cham peoples are typically recognized as ethnic or religious minorities in Southeast Asia and the U.S. We are never recognized as Indigenous on any national or international platform despite our Indigeneity to the Kingdom of Champa (present-day central and southern Vietnam). This essay examines the complex positions of Cham refugees of the Vietnam War and Khmer Rouge genocide who necessarily resettled in the U.S. Utilizing Yến Lê Espiritu’s concept of “critical juxtaposition,” this essay critically juxtaposes two Cham identities, often viewed as separate identities: “Indigenous” and “refugee.” As Indigenous Asian peoples in diaspora, Cham peoples complicate the discussion of Asian settler colonialism.
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