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America's Vietnam :

1439916136

9781439916131

143991611X

1439916128

9781439916117

9781439916124

America's Vietnam :

[Book]

the longue duree of U.S. literature and empire /

Marguerite Bich Nguyen.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :

Temple University Press,

2018.

1 online resource

Asian American history and culture

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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"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 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 dureé model for understanding the history of Vietnamese-American encounters and demonstrates how genre significantly shapes our perceptions of war, race, and empire"--

America's Vietnam.

9781439916117

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.

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

War and society.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- Asian American.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Asian-- Indic.

Mass media and war.

Popular culture.

Social aspects.

War and literature.

War and society.

United States.

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LIT-- 004020

Nguyen, Marguerite Bich,1976-

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