Queer Dis/inheritance and Refugee Futures

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4520149
AutoresLy Thuy Nguyen (0000-0001-7411-4850, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen48
Número1-2
Páginas218-235
Fecha de publicación2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWomen's studies quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/wsq.2020.0026
OpenAlexW3025755242
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12

This essay investigates inheritance through queer reclamations of refugee lineage. I trace how queer dis/inheritance—as survival tactic, feminist epistemology, and aesthetic articulation—can make space for refugee futures. Looking at how Vietnamese American queer/artists navigate inherited traumas while fighting for belonging against xenophobia and racism, I forward queer dis/inheritance as a critical framework of refugee worldmaking beyond projects of recovery and recuperation. I read the refusal to make refugee experiences into something knowable, to preserve the silence and protect the unknown, and to rethink linear history into a sensory lineage, as manifestations of queer dis/inheritance

Aesthetics · Art · Political science · Politics · Queer · Racism · Refugee · Silence · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies