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Body Counts

Yen Le Espiritu

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, a.

GenresVietnam War (1961-1975)Vietnam War, 1961-1975RefugeesVietnamUnited StatesVietnamese Americans

249 pages

English edition · First published 2014 by University of California Press · ISBN 9781306945028

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