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Academic studies on U.S. interventions
Activism and refugee rights
Afghanistan war
American literature
Author_Alaina Kaus
Books on human rights
Caribbean
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Central and South America
Cold War
Contradictions in U.S. foreign policy
Dave Eggers
Demetria Martinez
Displacement in the Middle East
Engaging with refugee literature
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Global consequences of U.S. interventions
Global solidarity with displaced people
Hector Tobar
Human rights and foreign policy
Human rights pledges
Immigration
Iraq War
Lan Cao
Literature and war
Literature from displaced communities
Middle East
Mohsin Hamid
North Africa
Refugee experiences in literature
Refugee literature
Refugee narratives
refugee stories
Refugee voices in U.S. policy debate
Refugees
Refugees and social justice
Refugees from Central America
Refugees from North Africa
Refugees from Southeast Asia
Refugees from the Caribbean
Refugees from the Middle East
Riverbend
Southeast Asia
U.S. foreign policy
U.S. foreign policy and its consequences
U.S. imperialism through literature
U.S. intervention and displacement
U.S. intervention in Central America
U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia
U.S. intervention in the Middle East
U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia
U.S. refugee policy
Understanding U.S. foreign policy through fiction
Viet Nguyen
Vietnam War
Product details
- ISBN 9781625347183
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2023
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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U.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable “here” and an expendable “there.” In his 2003 announcement of the military campaign in Iraq, George W. Bush declared that we would fight in the Middle East so we wouldn’t have to fight “on the streets of our cities.” But what do the millions of people who live over “there” have to say about U.S. interventions and the displacement they provoke?
In this pathbreaking study, Alaina Kaus analyzes literature by and about refugees who fled Southeast Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, North Africa, and the Middle East, in the wake of U.S. military occupation and economic intervention. Narratives by authors such as Lan Cao, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Demetria MartÍnez, HÉctor Tobar, Dave Eggers, Mohsin Hamid, and Riverbend reveal contradictions in the human rights pledges that undergird U.S. foreign policy, which promote freedom while authorizing intervention and displacement, and favor market-based solutions over social justice and racial equality.
In this pathbreaking study, Alaina Kaus analyzes literature by and about refugees who fled Southeast Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, North Africa, and the Middle East, in the wake of U.S. military occupation and economic intervention. Narratives by authors such as Lan Cao, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Demetria MartÍnez, HÉctor Tobar, Dave Eggers, Mohsin Hamid, and Riverbend reveal contradictions in the human rights pledges that undergird U.S. foreign policy, which promote freedom while authorizing intervention and displacement, and favor market-based solutions over social justice and racial equality.
