Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen

Memory Is Another Country (eBook, PDF)

Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313360282
• Artikelnr.: 54035157

Autorenporträt

Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen is Professor of History at Monash University, Australia, and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA). A Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Oxford and former Australian Research Council Future Fellow, she is the author of four books including 2010 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Memory is Another Country: Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora (2009) and South Vietnamese Soldiers: Memories of the Vietnam War and After (2016) (both now with Bloomsbury) as well as editor of the Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora (2024).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Lost
Photographs 2. Sisters and Memories 3. Women in Uniform 4. Fragments of War
5. Love across Cultures 6. Return Journeys Conclusion Notes Bibliography
Index