Body Counts

The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees

Yen Le Espiritu

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University of California Press
23 August 2014

Vietnam War; Migration, immigration & emigration; Social & cultural anthropology

"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."

By: Yen Le Espiritu
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780520277717
ISBN 10: 0520277716
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 23 August 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Critical Refuge(e) Studies 2. Militarized Refuge(es) 3. Refugee Camps and the Politics of Living 4. The ""Good Warriors"" and the ""Good Refugee"" 5. Refugee Remembering--and Remembrance 6. Refugee Postmemories: The ""Generation After"" 7. ""The Endings That Are Not Over"" Notes References Index"

Yen Le Espiritu is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of the award-winning Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries (UC Press, 2003).

Reviews for Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees

An important addition to the transnational history of the Vietnam War, Cold War global history, and the history of Asian migration to the United States... An Innovative work. -- Heonik Kwon American Journal of Sociology (AJS)