Gift of Freedom War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages

Name: Gift of Freedom War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
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ISBN: 9780822352396

ISBN-10: 0822352397

ISBN-13: 9780822352396

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mimi Thi Nguyen

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InThe Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cartography of progress, Nguyen proposes the gift of freedom as the name for those forces that avow to reverence aliveness and beauty, and to govern an enlightened humanity, while producing new subjects and actions—such as a grateful refugee, or enduring war—in an age of liberal empire. From the Cold War to the global war on terror, liberal empire simultaneously promises the gift of freedom through war and violence, and…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction. The Empire of Freedom



The Refugee Condition



Grace, the Gift of the Girl in the Photograph



Race Wars, Patriot Acts


Epilogue. Refugee Returns


Notes


Bibliography


Index