The Fiction of truth, the truth of fiction

Tuesday, September 07, 2004 "'Cheli-Beti' Discourses of Trafficking and Constructions of Gender, Citizenship and Nation in Modern Nepal" appears in the anthology Sexual Sites, Seminal Atttitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia Editor: Sanjaya Srivastava Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd Pub Date: 02/2004 Pages: 360 The book was put together from papers presented at a conference of the same name in Deakins University, Australia in 1998.

Bregje van Eekelen Jennifer González Bettina Stötzer Anna Tsing editors If you don’t know what to say about global war, you need a dictionary. Shock and Awe: War on Words (New Pacific Press: Fall 2004) is just that: a keywords book that participates in a battle over the imagination, acknowledging the force of words, concepts, and images in framing our everyday lives. Located in the borderlands between scholarship and public culture, it re-appropriates our vocabularies by exploring the political trajectories of world-making words, projects, and images. You hear yourself use the word terrorism, and uncannily find yourself participating in its life, its proliferation, its reality. Willy-nilly you’ve become a participant in a world-making project of anxiety and antagonism. While it is impossible to completely give up on terms like peace, family, and security, to use them is to become a stranger in one’s own world. Yet how can we envision an alternative if our very imagination, the very def...

WAITING FOR THE WAR TO END I see the black smoke of bodies charred and burning up my dreams, the red tears of my dismembered country – Nepal, you used to be a canvas, green and radiant, now painted darkly with the brush of human despair and the sticky patina of blood, hope disemboweled by rusty khukuris and AK-47s and old helicopters given for free by friendly countries wanting only security, but do they see – do they see the dead bodies? We have become a nation where the mountains and the fields and especially the rivers are flooded, flooded, flooded – over and over with the sacrifice of human corpses - and once again the soul is at large, like modernity torn forever, mixed with too much hate and ideology once again we come back to this time and place back to this impasse, back to this place of power where the struggle is less for the future than it is for the bloody now, so here we are, all of us, here and now and breathing still, waiting for the wa...

The End of the World received a hyperfiction prize from East of the Web. http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/EndWorl.shtml It has been republished in The Cold River Review (winter, 2006) http://www.riverreview.org/previous%20issues.htm It has been used by English as a Second Language sites: http://www.eslme.com/article/1344/1355/1341/2006/200608023100.html And its been translated in the Vietnamese by Sai Gon Tiep Thi Online. Read "Ngày tận thế": http://www.sgtt.com.vn/web/tintuc/default.aspx?cat_id=649&news_id=15491