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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796750203321

Autore

Nguyen Marguerite Bich <1976->

Titolo

America's Vietnam : the longue duree of U.S. literature and empire / / Marguerite Bich Nguyen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia ; ; Rome ; ; Tokyo : , : Temple University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-4399-1613-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Asian American history & culture

Classificazione

LIT004030LIT008020

Disciplina

810.9/358597

Soggetti

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Social aspects - United States

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Influence

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Literature and the war

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Mass media and the war

War and society

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American

LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"America's Vietnam challenges the prevailing genealogy of Vietnam's emergence in the American imagination--one that presupposes the Vietnam War as the starting point of meaningful Vietnamese--U.S. political and cultural involvements. Examining literature from as early as the 1820s, Marguerite Nguyen takes a comparative, long historical approach to interpreting constructions of Vietnam in American literature. She analyzes works in various genres published in English and Vietnamese by Monique Truong and Michael Herr as well as lesser-known writers such as John White, Harry Hervey, and V&otilde; Phi?n. The book's cross-cultural prism spans Paris, Saigon, New York, and multiple oceans, and its departure from Cold War frames reveals rich cross-period connections. America's Vietnam recounts a mostly unexamined story of Southeast Asia's lasting and varied influence on U.S. aesthetic and political concerns. Tracking Vietnam's transition from



an emergent nation in the nineteenth century to a French colony to a Vietnamese-American war zone, Nguyen demonstrates that how authors represent Vietnam is deeply entwined with the United States' shifting role in the world. As America's longstanding presence in Vietnam evolves, the literature it generates significantly revises our perceptions of war, race, and empire over time"--

"Examining works written in English and Vietnamese, this book maps a transnational, longue dureeĢ model for understanding the history of Vietnamese-American encounters and demonstrates how genre significantly shapes our perceptions of war, race, and empire"--