Memory Is Another Country - Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora

Informationen zum Autor Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen holds an ARC Australian Research Fellowship at the Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne. She was shortlisted for the 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Voyage of Hope: Vietnamese Australian Women's Narratives (2005). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

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• Authors: Nathalie Nguyen, Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, Nguyen Nathalie Huynh Chau
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2009
• EAN: 9780313360275
• ISBN: 978-0-313-36027-5
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Vietnam, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Black & Asian Studies, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Geography and World Cultures: Culture