| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-239) and index. |
| Contents |
Critical refuge(e) studies -- Militarized refuge(es) -- Refugee camps and the politics of living -- The "good warriors" and the "good refugee" -- Refugee remembering -- and remembrance -- Refugee postmemories : the "generation after" -- "The endings that are not over." |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vietnam War (1961-1975) |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees.
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Refugees. |
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Refugees -- Vietnam.
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Vietnam. |
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Refugees -- United States.
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United States. |
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Vietnamese Americans.
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Vietnamese Americans. |
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Collective memory -- United States.
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Collective memory. |
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Militarism -- United States.
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Militarism. |
| Chronological Term |
1961 - 1975 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Espiritu, Yen Le, 1963- author. Body counts 9780520277700 9780520277717 (DLC) 2014003088 (OCoLC)870211351 |
| ISBN |
9780520959002 electronic book |
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0520959000 electronic book |
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130694502X electronic book |
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9781306945028 electronic book |
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9780520277700 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520277708 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520277717 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520277716 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40024050027 |
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