Memory Is Another Country
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Memory Is Another Country

Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora

  1. 228 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Memory Is Another Country

Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora

About this book

2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The act of remembering is a means of bringing the past alive and an imaginative way of dealing with loss. It has been the subject of much recent scholarship and is of particular relevance at a time of widespread transnational migration. This book is a valuable and original contribution to the field of diaspora studies. Based on in-depth oral narratives of forty Vietnamese women, it deals with themes both universal and specific to this diaspora: divergent memories in families, the significance of homeland, the return to Vietnam, cross-cultural relationships, intergenerational tensions, and the issues of silence and unspoken trauma among Vietnamese refugees. It is the first study to apply memory and trauma theories to a substantial base of oral narratives by Vietnamese women in the West. Nguyen argues that understanding of these narratives provides not only an insight into the way Vietnamese women have dealt with loss, but also illuminates the experience of the wider Vietnamese diaspora and other refugees.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780313360275
eBook ISBN
9780313360282

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface and Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. Lost Photographs
  7. Chapter 2. Sisters and Memories
  8. Chapter 3. Women in Uniform
  9. Chapter 4. Fragments of War
  10. Chapter 5. Love across Cultures
  11. Chapter 6. Return Journeys
  12. Conclusion
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index