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Body counts : the Vietnam War and militarized refuge(es) / / Yê Lê Espiritu



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Autore: Espiritu Yen Le <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Body counts : the Vietnam War and militarized refuge(es) / / Yê Lê Espiritu Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina: 959.704/31
Soggetto topico: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Refugees
Refugees - Vietnam
Refugees - United States
Vietnamese Americans
Collective memory - United States
Militarism - United States
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century american history
20th century global history
alternative memories
american exceptionalism
american imperialism
american studies
asian american studies
collective remembering
commemoration
damage centered approach
immigration
imperialism
interdisciplinary
international politics
loss and trauma
politics of memory
politics
power and memory
refugee studies
refugees
retrospective
transnationalism
vietnam war
vietnam
vietnamese american
vietnamese refugees
vietnamese
violence
war memory
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Critical Refuge(e) Studies -- 2. Militarized Refuge(es) -- 3. Refugee Camps and the Politics of Living -- 4. The "Good Warriors" and the "Good Refugee" -- 5. Refugee Remembering-and Remembrance -- 6. Refugee Post-memories: The "Generation After" -- 7. "The Endings That Are Not Over" -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) 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, Body Counts 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Body counts  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95900-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786652003321
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