Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es)

by Yen Le Espiritu

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520277716
• ISBN13: 9780520277717
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"