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Elsewhere, within here, immigration, refugeeism and the boundary event, by Trinh T. Minh-ha

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Elsewhere, within here

bibliography

by Trinh T. Minh-ha

immigration, refugeeism and the boundary event

"World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T. Minh-ha is one of the most powerful and articulate voices in both independent filmmaking and cultural politics. Elsewhere, Within Here is an engaging look at travel across national borders--as a foreigner, a tourist, an immigrant, a refugee--in a pre- and post-9/11 world. Who is welcome where? What does it mean to feel out of place in the country you call home? When does the stranger appear in these times of dark metamorphoses? These are some of the issues addressed by the author as she examines the cultural meaning and complexities of travel, immigration, home and exile. The boundary, seen both as a material and immaterial event, is where endings pass into beginnings. Building upon themes present in her earlier work on hybridity and displacement in the median passage, and illuminating the ways in which "every voyage can be said to involve a re-siting of boundaries, " Trinh T. Minh-ha leads her readers through an investigation of what it means to be an insider and an outsider in this "epoch of global fear'."--Page 4 of cover

Foreignness and the new color of fear. Story of the wall -- The wall event -- The call of the tricolor flag -- Part I. Home : the traveling source. Far away, from home : the comma between -- Sleepless silence -- The tea and the tear -- The debt of love -- Man of tea -- Children of dragons and immortals -- The century of forgiveness? -- Other than myself, my other self. Traveling tales -- A stranger in a strange country -- Wanderers across language -- Their country is my country -- The blue frog -- I, the Mis-seer -- part II. Boundary event : between refuse and refuge. An acoustic journey -- Midway to nowhere -- "You are the battleground" -- A matter of tuning -- Nature's r : a musical swoon -- Looking back to the city of the future -- Boundary event -- Nature's becoming -- Twilight gray, middle gray -- The faded charm of the wolf -- Voice over I -- Air (your tongue) -- Earth (your lips) -- Water (your saliva) -- Light (the way you move) -- The paint of music : a performance across cultures. Essence-- performance -- A musical accuracy -- A moment in and out of time -- An artless balance -- Making music with painting -- part III. No end in sight. Mother's talk. Stupidity and memory -- Wisdom and memory -- Wisdom's gender -- Talk, more (than) talk -- Tale telling and the texture of memory -- White spring. The page screen -- Red and black : voices of the rain -- Speaking blind through camera window -- Death's voyeur : the all-in-one diseuse -- Detroit : incarcerated and disappeared in the land of the free

Immigration, refugeeism and the boundary event