Tebchaws: A Theory of Magnetic Media and Hmong Diasporic Homeland

Hmong Studies Journal

卷:16

关键词: diaspora;    homeland;    magnetic media;    audio;    video;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article theorizes forms of magnetic media—audio and video recordings—as a metaphor for diasporic memory. It then posits three versions of Hmong diasporic homeland imagination fromthe most immediate (a return to Laos), to ancestral China, and finally to an imagined utopic homeland theorized as tebchaws (DAY-char)—a term connoting place, land, and nation at once.Tebchaws becomes a critical piece of terminology that contributes to a theorization of Hmong diasporic homeland imagination. Examples of archival audio and video recordings areinterpreted as manifestations of tebchaws, which draws heavily upon ecological sonic and visual images.

【 授权许可】

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