Body counts : the Vietnam War and militarized refuge(es) /
Espiritu, Yen Le, 1963-
Body counts : the Vietnam War and militarized refuge(es) / Yến Lê Espiritu. - 1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-239) and index.
Critical refuge(e) studies -- Militarized refuge(es) -- Refugee camps and the politics of living -- The "good warriors" and the "good refugee" -- Refugee remembering -- and remembrance -- Refugee postmemories : the "generation after" -- "The endings that are not over."
This book examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and refugee studies not around the narratives of American exceptionalism, immigration, and transnationalism but around the crucial issues of war, race, and violence - and the history and memories that are forged in the aftermath of war. At the same time, the book moves decisively away from the 'damage-centered' approach that pathologizes loss and trauma by detailing how first- and second-generation Vietnamese have created alternative memories and epistemologies that challenge the established public narratives of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese people. Explicitly interdisciplinary, this text moves between the humanities and social sciences, drawing on historical, ethnographic, cultural, and virtual evidence in order to illuminate the places where Vietnamese refugees have managed to conjure up social, public, and collective remembering. -- Provided by publisher.
English.
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40024050027
625753 MIL 22573/ctt6xx4pv JSTOR 65080196-9606-4894-B8D8-9F71A2289D25 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
1961 - 1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Refugees.
Refugees--Vietnam.
Refugees--United States.
Vietnamese Americans.
Collective memory--United States.
Militarism--United States.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975--Réfugiés.
Réfugiés--Viêt-nam.
Réfugiés--États-Unis.
Américains d'origine vietnamienne.
Mémoire collective--États-Unis.
Militarisme--États-Unis.
HISTORY--Asia--Southeast Asia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Collective memory.
Militarism.
Refugees.
Vietnamese Americans.
Flüchtling
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Vietnamesen
Vietnamkrieg
United States.
Vietnam.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DS559.63 / .E87 2014eb
959.704/31
Body counts : the Vietnam War and militarized refuge(es) / Yến Lê Espiritu. - 1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-239) and index.
Critical refuge(e) studies -- Militarized refuge(es) -- Refugee camps and the politics of living -- The "good warriors" and the "good refugee" -- Refugee remembering -- and remembrance -- Refugee postmemories : the "generation after" -- "The endings that are not over."
This book examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and refugee studies not around the narratives of American exceptionalism, immigration, and transnationalism but around the crucial issues of war, race, and violence - and the history and memories that are forged in the aftermath of war. At the same time, the book moves decisively away from the 'damage-centered' approach that pathologizes loss and trauma by detailing how first- and second-generation Vietnamese have created alternative memories and epistemologies that challenge the established public narratives of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese people. Explicitly interdisciplinary, this text moves between the humanities and social sciences, drawing on historical, ethnographic, cultural, and virtual evidence in order to illuminate the places where Vietnamese refugees have managed to conjure up social, public, and collective remembering. -- Provided by publisher.
English.
9780520959002 (electronic bk.) 0520959000 (electronic bk.) 130694502X (electronic bk.) 9781306945028 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
40024050027
625753 MIL 22573/ctt6xx4pv JSTOR 65080196-9606-4894-B8D8-9F71A2289D25 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
1961 - 1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Refugees.
Refugees--Vietnam.
Refugees--United States.
Vietnamese Americans.
Collective memory--United States.
Militarism--United States.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975--Réfugiés.
Réfugiés--Viêt-nam.
Réfugiés--États-Unis.
Américains d'origine vietnamienne.
Mémoire collective--États-Unis.
Militarisme--États-Unis.
HISTORY--Asia--Southeast Asia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Collective memory.
Militarism.
Refugees.
Vietnamese Americans.
Flüchtling
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Vietnamesen
Vietnamkrieg
United States.
Vietnam.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DS559.63 / .E87 2014eb
959.704/31