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03910aam a2200697 i 4500 001 9EC47902214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 111228t20122012ncua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2011053304 020 $a 0822352397 020 $a 9780822352396 020 $a 0822352222 020 $a 9780822352228 035 $a (OCoLC)768798940 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c NDD $d DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d UKMGB $d ZCU $d BWX $d CDX $d CUT $d PUL $d YUS $d OCLCF $d S3O $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCA $d TFW $d GZM $d FUG $d GDC $d OCLCA $d CUI $d U9X $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV640.4.U54 $b N48 2012 082 00 $a 323.0973 $2 23 100 1 $a Nguyen, Mimi Thi, $d 1974- $e author. 245 14 $a The gift of freedom : $b war, debt, and other refugee passages / $c Mimi Thi Nguyen. 246 30 $a War, debt, and other refugee passages. 264 1 $a Durham, North Carolina ; $b Duke University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a xvi, 276 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Next wave: new directions in women's studies 505 00 $t Epilogue : refugee returns. $t The refugee condition -- $t Grace, the gift of the girl in the photograph -- $t Race wars, patriot acts -- $t Epilogue : refugee returns. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-265) and index. 520 $a In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cartography of progress, Nguyen proposes "the gift of freedom" as the name for those forces that avow to reverence aliveness and beauty, and to govern an enlightened humanity, while producing new subjects and actions--such as a grateful refugee, or enduring war--in an age of liberal empire. From the Cold War to the global war on terror, the United States simultaneously promises the gift of freedom through war and violence and administers the debt that follows. Focusing here on the figure of the Vietnamese refugee as the twice-over target of the gift of freedom--first through war, second through refuge--Nguyen suggests that the imposition of debt precludes the subjects of freedom from escaping those colonial histories that deemed them "unfree." To receive the gift of freedom then is to be indebted to empire, perhaps without end. 586 $a Asian American Studies Book Award--Cultural Studies, 2014. 650 0 $a Refugees $z United States. 650 0 $a Ideology $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations. 650 0 $a Liberty. 650 6 $a ReÌfugieÌs $z EÌtats-Unis. 650 6 $a IdeÌologie $z EÌtats-Unis. 651 6 $a EÌtats-Unis $x Relations exteÌrieures. 650 6 $a LiberteÌ. 650 7 $a freedom. $2 aat 650 7 $a Ideology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00966915 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Liberty. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997251 650 7 $a Refugees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01092797 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a Ideologiekritik $2 gnd 650 7 $a American Exceptionalism $2 gnd 650 7 $a Politische Philosophie $2 gnd 650 7 $a GruppenidentitaÌt $2 gnd 650 7 $a Nationalismus $2 gnd 650 7 $a Imperialismus $2 gnd 650 7 $a Vietnamkrieg $2 gnd 650 7 $a Vietnamesischer FluÌchtling $2 gnd 650 7 $a Freiheit $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA $2 gnd 650 7 $a Flyktingar $z FoÌrenta staterna. $2 sao 776 08 $i Online version: $a Nguyen, Mimi Thi, 1974- $t Gift of freedom $w (OCoLC)1141677142 830 0 $a Next wave (Duke University Press) 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724071036.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9EC47902214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search