Trinh T Minh‐ha
Biographic Data
| ID | 4520534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trinh T Minh‐ha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trinh T |
| FAMILY NAME | Minh‐ha |
| SIGNATURE | HA T T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Image and the Void
This article addresses an expansive approach to the ‘visual’, including discussions of the forms of invisibility generated within the visible, the power of the unseen, or of blanks, holes and chairs kept empty
Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
This book offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. It discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, or to China's occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. The book also takes up the shifting dynamics of peopl…
When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics
In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such as Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology. When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reductiv…
Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event
Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T. Minh-ha is one of the most powerful and articulate voices in both independent filmmaking and cultural politics. Elsewhere, Within Here is an engaging look at travel across national borders--as a foreigner, a tourist, an immigrant, a refugee—in a pre- and post-9/11 world. Who is we…
Drawn from African Dwellings
Drawn from African Dwellings
An Acoustic Journey
In the current political and cultural landscape a crucial shift has been emerging, and maturing: a shift in the (dis/re)articulation of identity and difference. Such articulations remain informed by an awareness of both the enabling and disenabling potentials of the divisions within and between cultures. Constantly guarded, reinforced, destroyed, set up, and reclaimed, boundaries not only express the desire to free/to subject one practice, one cu…
Shoot For The Contents
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
Ethnicity and Women's Literature
Documentary Is/Not a Name
There is no such thing as documentary-whether the term designates a category of material, a genre, an approach, or a set of techniques. This assertion-as old and as fundamental as the antagonism between names and reality-needs incessantly to be restated, despite the very visible existence of a documentary tradition. In film, such a tradition, far from undergoing crisis today, is likely to fortify itself through its very recurrence of declines and…
Woman, Native, Other
Trinh T. Minh-ha is a writer, film-maker and composer. She emigrated from Vietnam to the United States in 1970 after a year at the University of Saigon, and continued her studies of music and composition, French literature and ethnomusicology in the US and later in Paris. She taught music for three years at the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal. She is currently Associate Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University. Her v…
Difference: A Special Third World Women Issue
It is thrilling to think - to know that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame. It is quite exciting to hold the center of the national stage, with the spectators not knowing whether to laugh or to weep. (Zora Neale Hurston, 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me
African Spaces: Designs for Living in Upper Volta
The diversity and complexity of African vernacular architecture remain widely unknown both to the general public and to architects. Yet Upper Volta (Burkino Faso) encompasses an astonishing variety of design principles and building techniques that belie the widespread image of the primitive hut so readily associated with rural Africa. This provides a convincing interpretation of the relationship between spatial organisation and daily activity in …
Reassemblage: Sketch of Sound Track
Research Article| September 01 1985 Reassemblage: Sketch of Sound Track Trinh T. Minh-ha Trinh T. Minh-ha Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 104–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-1-2_13-14-104 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Koumbili: Semi-Sunken Dwellings in Upper Volta
The Architecture of a Lela Compound
T he Lela, an ethnic group within the Gurunsi cluster of Voltaic languages, are located roughly northwest of Koudougou and east of the Black Volta River in central Upper Volta. The Lela village of Poa is one of the few that still retain traditional building techniques and offer little evidence of urban influence. Its two quarters, four kilometers apart, are Poa and Zyilliwele, but Poa is the oldest of the two and gives its name to the entire vill…
The Plural Void: Barthes and Asia
Documentary Is/Not a Name
There is no such thing as documentary-whether the term designates a category of material, a genre, an approach, or a set of techniques. This assertion-as old and as fundamental as the antagonism between names and reality-needs incessantly to be restated, despite the very visible existence of a documentary tradition. In film, such a tradition, far from undergoing crisis today, is likely to fortify itself through its very recurrence of declines and…
Difference: A Special Third World Women Issue
It is thrilling to think - to know that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame. It is quite exciting to hold the center of the national stage, with the spectators not knowing whether to laugh or to weep. (Zora Neale Hurston, 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Ethnicity and Women's Literature
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
Woman, Native, Other
Trinh T. Minh-ha is a writer, film-maker and composer. She emigrated from Vietnam to the United States in 1970 after a year at the University of Saigon, and continued her studies of music and composition, French literature and ethnomusicology in the US and later in Paris. She taught music for three years at the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal. She is currently Associate Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University. Her v…
Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
This book offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. It discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, or to China's occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. The book also takes up the shifting dynamics of peopl…
Shoot For The Contents
Koumbili: Semi-Sunken Dwellings in Upper Volta
The Architecture of a Lela Compound
T he Lela, an ethnic group within the Gurunsi cluster of Voltaic languages, are located roughly northwest of Koudougou and east of the Black Volta River in central Upper Volta. The Lela village of Poa is one of the few that still retain traditional building techniques and offer little evidence of urban influence. Its two quarters, four kilometers apart, are Poa and Zyilliwele, but Poa is the oldest of the two and gives its name to the entire vill…
The Plural Void: Barthes and Asia
Koumbili: Semi-Sunken Dwellings in Upper Volta
Reassemblage: Sketch of Sound Track
Research Article| September 01 1985 Reassemblage: Sketch of Sound Track Trinh T. Minh-ha Trinh T. Minh-ha Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 104–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-1-2_13-14-104 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
African Spaces: Designs for Living in Upper Volta
The diversity and complexity of African vernacular architecture remain widely unknown both to the general public and to architects. Yet Upper Volta (Burkino Faso) encompasses an astonishing variety of design principles and building techniques that belie the widespread image of the primitive hut so readily associated with rural Africa. This provides a convincing interpretation of the relationship between spatial organisation and daily activity in …
Difference: A Special Third World Women Issue
It is thrilling to think - to know that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame. It is quite exciting to hold the center of the national stage, with the spectators not knowing whether to laugh or to weep. (Zora Neale Hurston, 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Ethnicity and Women's Literature
Documentary Is/Not a Name
There is no such thing as documentary-whether the term designates a category of material, a genre, an approach, or a set of techniques. This assertion-as old and as fundamental as the antagonism between names and reality-needs incessantly to be restated, despite the very visible existence of a documentary tradition. In film, such a tradition, far from undergoing crisis today, is likely to fortify itself through its very recurrence of declines and…
Woman, Native, Other
Trinh T. Minh-ha is a writer, film-maker and composer. She emigrated from Vietnam to the United States in 1970 after a year at the University of Saigon, and continued her studies of music and composition, French literature and ethnomusicology in the US and later in Paris. She taught music for three years at the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal. She is currently Associate Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University. Her v…
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
Shoot For The Contents
An Acoustic Journey
In the current political and cultural landscape a crucial shift has been emerging, and maturing: a shift in the (dis/re)articulation of identity and difference. Such articulations remain informed by an awareness of both the enabling and disenabling potentials of the divisions within and between cultures. Constantly guarded, reinforced, destroyed, set up, and reclaimed, boundaries not only express the desire to free/to subject one practice, one cu…
Drawn from African Dwellings
Drawn from African Dwellings
Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event
Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T. Minh-ha is one of the most powerful and articulate voices in both independent filmmaking and cultural politics. Elsewhere, Within Here is an engaging look at travel across national borders--as a foreigner, a tourist, an immigrant, a refugee—in a pre- and post-9/11 world. Who is we…
When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics
In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such as Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology. When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reductiv…
The Image and the Void
This article addresses an expansive approach to the ‘visual’, including discussions of the forms of invisibility generated within the visible, the power of the unseen, or of blanks, holes and chairs kept empty
Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
This book offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. It discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, or to China's occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. The book also takes up the shifting dynamics of peopl…
History (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)