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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ours is a lovesick world, but Lovecidal invites us to take part in its cure, walking alongside Minh-ha, Las Madres and other dissidents who see love as a mighty, creative and transformative act." -London School of Economics Review of Books "Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared is filled with provocation and guided by evocation. Encompassing various forms (poetry, treatise, memoir, and historiography) and capaciously conceived, Trinh T. Minh-ha's contemplation of war, state-authorized violence, state-sanctioned 'security,' and international amnesia is skillfully tempered by observations of beauty, humanity, and resistance. To say that this is an important book is in many ways an understatement; rather, Lovecidal is transformative." -- -Cathy J. Schlund-Vials author of War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work "A searing trek through our bellicose and warring times, Lovecidal makes an impressive, laser-like and passionate plea to explore what is possible now for humans as living, feeling, and thinking beings." -- -Renee Green author of Other Planes of There
Table of ContentsSomewhere in the Process Blind Energy How to Write an Ending? Liquid Denouement Enhanced Security: "He Won" Exiting: "The Dark Night Policy" Specter of Vietnam The Smell of Victory Screen Replay Twilight Walk The Matter of War The Oil Stain Deep in the Red "When Will They Be Ready, Really?" Small Cell Large Cell [Living Dead or Suicided? Please Choose] Between Victor and Victor The Strength to Lift A Hair Twin Victories A Legacy of Inflation She, The Wayfarer Walking with The Disappeared Circle of Love: Pink, White and Black [The Red-Blue Divide] Thriving on a D-Stroll A Hole in the Heart Virtual Monument Censored Miles of Strangeness Light Weight The Mole's Empire: Power of The Unseen The Other Victory [Terrorist Sightings] In-humanity: Down Where It Hurts Feeling The Way Out The Crawl to Peace When The General Cries Washington's Visual Scar The World is Watching Lotus in Tears "I am the Reality" In the Night of Becoming Small Acts on The Roof of The World Walk for Rain The New Rebels The Blank Page "Sensitive Cases" Displaced, Dispossessed, Disappeared The Great Uprooting Sea of Immigrants Rising From Mud and Muck [The Odor of Fear ] Interval of Resistance The Empty Chair The Image Under Erasure Lotus Bomb(ed) The Screensaver's Light The Ultimate Protest True Person of No Rank [Snake in The Can] A Bridge, A Boat, A Spark of Plenty This Sky, Which Is Not Blue Acknowledgment Notes Index
