During its secret war in Laos (1961–1975), the United States
recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war,
many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with
refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the
experiences of Hmong refugees in the United States to theorize
refugee histories and secrecy, in particular those of the Hmong.
Vang conceptualizes these histories as fugitive histories, as they
move and are carried by people who move. Charting the incomplete
archives of the war made secret through redacted US state
documents, ethnography, film, and literature, Vang shows how Hmong
refugees tell their stories in ways that exist separately from
narratives of U.S. empire and that cannot be traditionally
archived. In so doing, Vang outlines a methodology for writing
histories that foreground refugee epistemologies despite systematic
attempts to silence those histories.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2021 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Ma Vang
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-1131-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4780-1131-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781478011316 |
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