Vietnam War and its Southeast Asian diasporic aftermaths

 

Scholarly resources

• August, Timothy K. The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020.
• Bui, Long T. Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory. New York: New York University Press, 2018.
• Chan, Sucheng, ed. Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
• Duong, Lan. Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012.
• Espiritu, Yen Le. Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
• Espiritu, Yen Lê, and Nguyên-Vo Thu-Huong, eds. “30 Years AfterWARd: Vietnamese Americans and U.S. Empire.” Amerasia Journal 31, no. 2 (2005).
  • Russell C. Leong & Brandy Liên Worrall-Yu, “Moment of Empire: An Editorial Dialogue” (iv-xii)
  • Yen Lê Espiritu, “Introduction: Thirty Years AfterWARd: The Endings That Are Not Over” (xiii-xxiv)
  • Lan Duong, “Manufacturing Authenticity: The Feminine Ideal in Tony Bui’s Three Seasons” (1-19)
  • Việt Lê, “The Art of War: Vietnamese American Visual Artists Dinh Q. Lê, Ann Phong and Nguyen Tan Hoang” (21-35)
  • Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, “Entering Linh Dinh’s Fake House: Literature of Displacement” (37-49)
  • Fiona I.B. Ngô “A Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities” (51-62)
  • Thuy Vo Dang, “The Cultural Work of Anticommunism in the San Diego Vietnamese American Community” (64-86)
  • Loan Dao, “What’s Going On with the Oakland Museums ‘California and the Vietnam Era’ Exhibit?” (88-106)
  • John D. Blanco, George Dutton, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Khatharya Um & Lisa Yoneyama, “Section III: AfterWARd—A Forum” (107-144)
  • Thu Minh Pham, “My Mother’s War” (146-152)
  • Brandy Liên Worrall-Yu, “Legacies” (153-156)
  • Nguyên-Vo Thu-Huong, “Forking Paths: How Shall We Mourn the Dead? (157-175)
• Nguyen, Marguerite. America’s Vietnam: The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and Empire. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018.
• Nguyen, Marguerite, and Catherine Fung, eds. “Refugee Cultures: Forty Years after the Vietnam War.” Special issue, MELUS 41, no. 3 (2016).
  • Marguerite Nguyen and Catherine Fung, “Editor’s Introduction: Refugee Cultures: Forty Years after the Vietnam War” (1-7)
  • Y-Dang Troeung, Việt Lê, and Andrew Lam, “Refugee Crossings on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Vietnam War: An Interview with Andrew Lam” (8-17
  • Mai-Linh K. Hong “Reframing the Archive: Vietnamese Refugee Narratives in the Post-9/11 Period” (18-41)
  • Jenny M. James, “Frayed Ends: Refugee Memory and Bricolage Practices of Repair in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Kim Thúy’s Ru” (42-67)
  • Timothy K. August, “Re-placing the Accent: From the Exile to Refugee Position” (68-88)
  • Ma Vang, “Writing on the Run: Hmong American Literary Formations and the Deterritorialized Subject” (89-111)
  • Long Bui, “The Refugee Repertoire: Performing and Staging the Postmemories of Violence” (112-132)
  • Heyang Julie Kae “Collateral Narratives: Neoliberal Citizenship, Juvenile Delinquency, and Cambodian American Refugee Youth in k.a. Don Bonus” (133-152)
  • Lan Duong, “Diasporic Returns and the Making of Vietnamese American Ghost Films in Vietnam” (153-170)
  • Vinh Nguyen, “Refugeography in ‘Post-Racial’ America: Bao Phi’s Activist Poetry” (171-193)
  • Yến Lê Espiritu, “Ghosts and Other Unfinished Conversations” (194-198)
  • Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, “The Subjects of 1975: Delineating the Necessity of Critical Refugee Studies” (199-203)
• Nguyen, Mimi Thi. The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
• Nguyen, Phuong. Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
• Nguyen, Viet Thanh. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
• Nguyen, Y Thien. “(Re)Making the South Vietnamese Past in America.” Journal of Asian American Studies 21, no. 1 (2018): 65–103.
• Ong, Aihwa. Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
• Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy. This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.
• Pfeifer, Mark Edward, Monica Chiu, and Kou Yang, eds. Diversity in Diaspora: Hmong Americans in the Twenty-First Century. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2013.
• Schlund-Vials, Cathy J. War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
• Tang, Eric. Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015.
• Um, Khatharya. From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
• Valverde, Kieu-Linh. Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012.
• Vang, Chia Youyee. Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
• Vang, Ma. History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.