{"product_id":"body-counts-the-vietnam-war-and-militarized-refugees-hardcover","title":"Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYen Le Espiritu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBody Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es)\u003c\/i\u003e 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, and violence--and the history and memories that are forged in the aftermath of war. At the same time, the book moves decisively away from the \"damage-centered\" approach that pathologizes loss and trauma by detailing how first- and second-generation Vietnamese have created alternative memories and epistemologies that challenge the established public narratives of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese people. Explicitly interdisciplinary, \u003ci\u003eBody Counts\u003c\/i\u003e moves between the humanities and social sciences, drawing on historical, ethnographic, cultural, and virtual evidence in order to illuminate the places where Vietnamese refugees have managed to conjure up social, public, and collective remembering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEloquent, evocative, and urgent, Espiritu's Body Counts constantly hits the mark with regard to recalibrating and redirecting the dominant narrative about refugees as traumatized subjects. Espiritu focuses instead on the ways in which a close analysis of these bodies are integral to understanding the past, present, and future of U.S. imperialism and militarism.--Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, author of \u003ci\u003eWar, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Espiritu uses her considerable scholarly talent to develop the notion of refuge(ee) not as a social problem but as a conceptual prism that exposes the multiple legacies of U.S. militarized violence and colonialism. Original and trenchantly argued, this book refracts light on the invisible stories of Vietnamese refugees and points us towards new innovative approaches for future inquiries.--Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of \u003ci\u003eParadise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A pathbreaking work in \"critical refuge(e) studies,\" \u003ci\u003eBody Counts\u003c\/i\u003e introduces extremely rich and provocative new methodologies for investigating the humanitarian violence of U.S. military empire. Compelling us to move beyond the familiar terms of American war narrative and its silences, Espiritu offers the everyday refugee life as a site of politicizing possibilities and hopes for a world radically remade.--Lisa Yoneyama, Professor, University of Toronto, author of \u003ci\u003eHiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEloquent, evocative, and urgent, Espiritu's Body Counts constantly hits the mark with regard to recalibrating and redirecting the dominant narrative about refugees as traumatized subjects. Espiritu focuses instead on the ways in which a close analysis of these bodies are integral to understanding the past, present, and future of U.S. imperialism and militarism.--Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, author of \u003ci\u003eWar, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Espiritu uses her considerable scholarly talent to develop the notion of refuge(ee) not as a social problem but as a conceptual prism that exposes the multiple legacies of U.S. militarized violence and colonialism. Original and trenchantly argued, this book refracts light on the invisible stories of Vietnamese refugees and points us towards new innovative approaches for future inquiries.\"--Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of \u003ci\u003eParadise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A pathbreaking work in \"critical refuge(e) studies,\" \u003ci\u003eBody Counts\u003c\/i\u003e introduces extremely rich and provocative new methodologies for investigating the humanitarian violence of U.S. military empire. Compelling us to move beyond the familiar terms of American war narrative and its silences, Espiritu offers the everyday refugee life as a site of politicizing possibilities and hopes for a world radically remade.\"--Lisa Yoneyama, Professor, University of Toronto, author of \u003ci\u003eHiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYen Le Espiritu\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eHome Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries\u003c\/i\u003e (UC Press, 2003).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756463227168,"sku":"9780520277700","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3c590380ec5a12184d95dc19e309bb6a_73130464-3042-4649-bdb8-84b773d04562.webp?v=1780080026","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/body-counts-the-vietnam-war-and-militarized-refugees-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}