America's Vietnam : the longue duree of U.S. literature and empire /
"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, Ma...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
Temple University Press,
2018.
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Series: | Asian American history and culture.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rethinking America's Vietnam; 1. Melodrama, Miscegenation, and Americanized Empire in French Indochina; 2. Who Served Up Modernism? Vietnamese Labor and Anticolonialism in Modernist Paris; 3. Vietnam War Exceptionalism: Dismembering and Disremembering Vietnam; 4. Critical Refugee Studies and the Emergence of Vietnamese American Letters; Conclusion: Vietnam's America in a Time of Smoke and Fire; Notes; Bibliography; Index.