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Born in Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer, and composer. Her work includes: ten books, including Elsewhere, Within Here (2010), The Digital Film Event (2005), When the Moon Waxes Red (1991), Woman, Native, Other (1989); seven feature-length films (including Night Passage 2004, The Fourth Dimension 2001 and A Tale of Love 1996), which have been honored in numerous retrospectives around the world; several collaborative multi-media installations (including Old Land New Waters, 2007-2008, (3rd Guangzhou Triennale 2008) L’Autre marche (Musée du Quai Branly, 2006-2009), The Desert Is Watching (Kyoto Biennial, 2003); and Nothing But Ways (Yerba Buena,1999). She is Professor of Rhetoric and of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Elsewhere, Within Here is an engaging look at travel across national borders--as a foreigner, a tourist, an immigrant, a refugee—in a pre- and post-9/11 world. Who is welcome where? What does it mean to feel out of place in the country you call home? When does the stranger appear in these times of dark metamorphoses? These are some of the issues addressed by the author as she examines the cultural meaning and complexities of travel, immigration, home and exile. The boundary, seen both as a material and immaterial event, is where endings pass into beginnings. Building upon themes present in her earlier work on hybridity and displacement in the median passage, and illuminating the ways in which "every voyage can be said to involve a re-siting of boundaries," Trinh T. Minh-ha leads her readers through an investigation of what it means to be an insider and an outsider in this "epoch of global fear."

Elsewhere, Within Here is essential reading for those interested in contemporary feminist thought and postcolonial studies.