... urgency of lives lost 5. The Refugee Grand mother Silence as Presence in The Latehomecomer and Gran Torino 146 Chapter Five in the absence of state- recorded markers. When thousands of Hmong men, women, and children have been lost to a war with no name and remain unac- counted for, those who survived its...

... 19· Lady Killers: A Question of Silence any years ago, in a decade called the seventies, there...

... law) to instead consider the ways in which war, emigration, immigration policies, family separations, silences, and deportation dismember bodies, lives, families, and nations. The chapter treats dis/memberment not only as a form of breaking apart but also as the denial of membership and the erasure of...