Returns of War : : South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory / / Long T. Bui.
The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of Vietnamese refugees In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism, marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam War. Although this former ally of the United States has vanished from the world map, Long T. Bui maintains that its memory end...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nation of Nations ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 6 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on language
- Introduction
- 1. Archival others: the Vietnamese as absent presence in the historical record
- 2. Refugee assets: the political reeducation of personal trauma and family bonds
- 3. Dismembered lives: the fractured body politics of the “little Saigon” community
- 4. Militarized freedoms: Vietnamese American soldiers fighting “future Vietnams”
- 5. Empire’s residuals: the return migration of former exiles to globalizing Vietnam
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the author