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Displacing kinship : the intimacies of intergenerational trauma in Vietnamese American cultural production / Linh Thủy Nguyẽ̂n.

Author/creator Nguyên, Linh Thuʾy, 1968- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2024.
Copyright Notice ©2024
Descriptionxiii, 197 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Portion of title Intimacies of intergenerational trauma in Vietnamese American cultural production
Series Asian American history and culture
Asian American history and culture.
Contents Introduction: Displacing Kinship: The Trauma of Assimilation and the Affects of Empire -- Chapter 1: Attractive Families: Assimilation and the Sociological Containment of Race -- Chapter 2: Ambivalent Attachments: Orienting toward Family in Vietnamerica and The Best We Could Do -- Chapter 3: "Like a Fucked Family": Intergenerational and Queer Vietnamese Traumas -- Chapter 4: Embodying Memory and Remembering Race -- Epilogue: Shattered Relationalities, Fetishizing Trauma and the Task of Representation.
Abstract "This book examines the family as a site of articulation for Vietnamese American experiences of racialization, identity, and trauma through an analysis of the art, literature, music, and film by the children of Vietnamese refugees"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Nguyẽ̂n, Linh Thủy, 1968- Displacing kinship Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2024 9781439924716
LCCN 2023033038
ISBN9781439924709
ISBN9781439924693 hardcover
ISBN1439924694 hardcover
ISBN1439924708 paperback
ISBNelectronic book

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