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3. Ecology as a Cold-War Scale: Lau Kek Huat’s Absent Without Leave and Ha Jin’s War Trash

verfasst von : Zhou Hau Liew

Erschienen in: Asia in the Old and New Cold Wars

Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

At the end of Lau Kek Huat’s documentary, Absent Without Leave (2016), the narrator’s father wanders around his childhood home, seemingly lost. His corporeality is emphasized by a series of shuffling steps, as he is unable to pinpoint his exact location. This inability to recognize his home, which is now a plantation, represents a larger issue, concerning the exilic remnants of the rural ethnic Chinese in the Cold-War conflict known as the Malayan Emergency. Specifically, the documentary depicts communist fighters exiled from modern-day Malaysia, showing the impact of the Cold War through their corporeal displacement from the Malayan ecology. The documentary’s shots of the Malayan landscape and jungle are visual depictions of the land, which commemorate the past homes of these documented subjects.

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Titel: Ecology as a Cold-War Scale: Lau Kek Huat’s Absent Without Leave and Ha Jin’s War Trash
verfasst von: Zhou Hau Liew
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Buch: Asia in the Old and New Cold Wars
Print ISBN: 978-981-19-7680-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-19-7681-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7681-0_3