Melanie
Manuel
ASA 150E
001
25 January
2020
The theme
of this week: “Third World Alliances and Social-Political Movements” is a
rather interesting one, because as Professor Valverde says, it “turns history
on its head” by reconfiguring how hegemonic discourses depicts the role of
women in war. Particularly in Judy Tzu-Chun Wu’s Radicals on the Road,
her chapter called “We Met the ‘Enemy’—and They Are Our Sisters” prove to
disprove how Southeast Asian women sat back and solely became war fodder, which
simply just means they were there to be killed or, rather, silenced. In Wu’s
chapter, she discusses a much larger role in which Southeast Asian women were
very much at the forefront of bringing attention to the atrocities of the Vietnam
War. This creates a different image of women at the time, rather than just
working in factories and taking care of households, we are given an image of
how American women were working to understand what was happening, while also
reaching out to women of these countries to hear their stories. This is
important because women are textually silenced consistently, probably even more
so in the realm of war, and so to have this take is extremely important in understanding
the larger picture as well as the resistance of Southeast Asian women happening
during this time.
I embedded
an image of a poster that advocates for the solidarity of Southeast Asian
overseas. The use of “brothers” and “sisters” indicates more than just vouching
for the sake of people, but rather a claim in standing beside them in their
fight to freedom. This inclusion is important, and not quite highlighted in today’s
textbooks, even if it is an extremely vital moment in history.
Works
Cited
Wu, Judy
Tzu-Chun. “Chapter 7: We Met the ‘Enemy’—and They Are Our Sisters.” Radicals on
the Road, 2013, pp. 193-218.
Image
Used
http://historyandcurrentcontext.blogspot.com/2014/08/journeys-towards-peace-internationalism.html
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