Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas

by Jinah Kim

In Postcolonial Grief Jinah Kim explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politics since World War II. Kim argues that Asian diasporic subjectivity exists in relation to afterlives because the deaths of those killed by U.S. imperialism and militarism in the Pacific remain unresolved and unaddressed. Kim shows how primarily U.S.-based Korean and Japanese diasporic writers, artists, and filmmakers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147800293X
• ISBN13: 9781478002932
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"