Elsewhere, Within Here

Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event

Trinh T. Minh-ha

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780415880220
• eBook ISBN: 9781136942792
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)

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."

Elsewhere, Within Here is essential reading for those interested in contemporary feminist thought and postcolonial studies.

Index

Note: alphabetical arrangement is letter-by-letter.

9/11 terrorist attacks see September Eleven terrorist attacks

A Ble Wail (performance by T. H. K. Cha) 107

Abrahams, Roger D. 131n3

accuracy, musical 57, 86–8, 90, 94

adventure tourism 73

aesthetics:

China 90;

Japan 68, 88, 90

Afghans, US and fear 6

Africa:

associated with AIDS 124;

language of silence 12;

supernatural 63;

writing and storytelling 24, 28, 97–105

African Americans 52–3

Ahn Joong Kun 108

AIDS 124

alienness 45, 55, 124;

see also foreigner;

stranger

Allen, Paula Gunn 54

Ambiguous Adventure (C. A. Kane) 61–2, 74–5, 129n9

Anzaldúa, Gloria 1, 50, 55

Arab Muslims, US and fear 6

art:

Asian 66, 68–72, 74;

Chinese 68–70;

music and painting as performance 85–94;

and wall in Iraq 4;

Western 70;

see also painting

Asia:

art 66, 68–72, 74;

receptivity 56;

supernatural 63;

see also individual cultures

Asian Americans 34, 36

assimilation 30

asylum 1

audience, dream of 107–21

Audience Distance Relative (T. H. K. Cha) 120

Australia:

refugees 30;

support for Aboriginal people 25

autobiography 28

L’Autre marche (installation), illustration from

Aveugle Voix (performance by T. H. K. Cha) 117

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Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreignness and the New Color of Fear
• I home
• II boundary event
• III no end in sight
• Notes
• Index