{"product_id":"the-refugee-aesthetic-9781439915318","title":"The Refugee Aesthetic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe refugee is conventionally considered a powerless figure, eagerly cast aside by both migrant and host communities. In his book, \u003ci\u003eThe Refugee Aesthetic, \u003c\/i\u003eTimothy August investigates how and why a number of Southeast Asian American artists and writers have recently embraced the figure of the refugee as a particularly transformative position. He explains how these artists, theorists, critics, and culture-makers reconstruct their place in the American imagination by identifying and critiquing the underlying structures of power that create refugees in the contemporary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAugust looks at the outside forces that shape refugee representation and how these expressions are received. He considers the visual legacy of the Southeast Asian refugee experience by analyzing music videos, graphic novels, and refugee artwork. August also examines the power of refugee literature, showing how and why Southeast Asian American writers look to the refugee position to disentangle their com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"[A] welcome contribution that expands the archives and critical methods related to Southeast Asian diasporas.... [It] fruitfully raise[s] the issue of how Asian American studies, critical refugee studies, and Vietnamese studies are related.\"\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Vietnamese Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408314736983,"sku":"9781439915318","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439915318.jpg?v=1730502405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-refugee-aesthetic-9781439915318","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}