Cold War Friendships - Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature

Zusatztext Revising the supposed otherness and passivity of Cold War friendlies, Park perceptively illuminates that self-positioning proto-American subjects negotiate the sometimes conflicting imperatives of both Cold War alliances and Asian American assimilation. Tracing the wartime genealogy of Asian Americanization, Cold War Friendships speaks not just to Asian American and Cold War Studies but also to transpacific studies [...] If we see Cold War Friendships as a response to the transnational turn in Asian American studies, Park deftly reveals how this transnational turn must also include a recognition of historically invisible proto-American friendlies and their difficult but sincere attachments to the United States. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. 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.

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• Authors: Josphine Nock-Hee Park, Josephine Nock Park, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Josphine Nock-Hee Park
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2016
• EAN: 9780190257668
• ISBN: 978-0-19-025766-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Vietnam, English, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, South Korea, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Modern warfare, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, The Cold War, North Korea, Vietnam War, Korean War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General