Postcolonial Grief : the Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas.
| Author/creator | Kim, Jinah, 1975- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Contents | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Mourning Empire; One. Melancholy Violence: Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth and Hisaye Yamamato's "A Fire in Fontana; Two. Haunting Absence: Racial Cognitive Mapping, Interregnum, and the Los Angeles Riots of 1992; Three. Transpacific Noir, Dying Colonialism; Four. Destined for Death: Antigone along the Pacific Rim; Epilogue. Watery Graves; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Abstract | Jinah Kim explores Asian and Asian American texts from 1945 to the present that mourn the loss of those killed by U.S. empire building and militarism in the Pacific, showing how the refusal to heal from imperial violence may help generate a transformative antiracist and decolonial politics. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Kim, Jinah. Postcolonial Grief : The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas. Durham : Duke University Press, ©2018 9781478001355 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781478002796 |
| ISBN | 1478002794 |