Josphine Nock-Hee Park

Cold War Friendships

Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780190257675
• ISBN-10: 0190257679
• Artikelnr.: 47864486

Autorenporträt

Josephine Park is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics was awarded the Literary Book Award by the Association for Asian American Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

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