ASIA AM 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Refugee Camp, Palestinian Americans, American Imperialism
30 Mar 2021
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Iii. alternatives: exile and its aesthetic possibilities (edward said) Empowerment as subjects, but with exoticist distance in modernist aesthetics. Gives rise to diasporic and transnational studies. Ex: issues of class; attention away from those who are home"; and reinforces a national order like refugee discourse itself. Palestinians were displaced with the creation of israel after wwii. Said tried to find other ways of state of being for palestinians. We take nation states as the standard of how we organize ourselves in the modern age. Selections from hearts of sorrow (freeman): ten indochinese days. Captain hung describes his experiences in north vietnam (communist rule) Justifying his attitude against communism with his stories. America doesn"t get involved with vietnam because of imperialism. Used hung"s experience of emotionality as a refugee, not american imperialism. Loss of country and way of life. Superimposes anger as a sense of being loss due to refugees.
