Cold War friendships Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American literature
"Drawing on epochal films such as The Manchurian Candidate and Samuel Fuller's Steel Helmet, in addition to landmark literature by the likes of Richard Kim, Chang-rae Lee, Susan Choi, Le Ly Hayslip, and Maxine Hong Kingston, Cold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2016
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American literature
> Asian American authors
> Cold War in literature
> Cold War in motion pictures
> Imperialism in literature
> Imperialism in motion pictures
> Korea in motion pictures
> Vietnam
> In literature
> Vietnam in motion pictures
> United States
> Foreign relations
> Korea
> USA
> Asiaten
> Literatur
> Ost-West-Konflikt
> Koreakrieg
> Vietnamkrieg
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Drawing on epochal films such as The Manchurian Candidate and Samuel Fuller's Steel Helmet, in addition to landmark literature by the likes of Richard Kim, Chang-rae Lee, Susan Choi, Le Ly Hayslip, and Maxine Hong Kingston, Cold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the American wars in Korea and Vietnam"-- Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Making Friendlies -- Part I: Securing the Korean War -- 1. Lesser Friends -- 2. Faithless Warrior: Richard E. Kim's The Martyred -- 3. Loving Freedom in Susan Choi's The Foreign Student -- 4. Inhuman Alliances: Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered -- Part II: Reviving the War in Vietnam -- 5. Losing Friends -- 6. Goddess of Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip's Memoirs -- 7. Fabricating Friends in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge -- 8. Shame and Love: Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala -- Conclusion -- Works Cited |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 310 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780190257675 978-0-19-025767-5 9780190257668 978-0-19-025766-8 |