Title Displacing kinship : the intimacies of intergenerational trauma in Vietnamese American cultural production / Linh Thủy Nguyẽ̂n

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 197 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Asian American history and culture Asian American history and culture Contents Introduction: Displacing Kinship: The Trauma of Assimilation and the Affects of Empire -- Chapter 1: Attractive Families: Assimilation and the Sociological Containment of Race -- Chapter 2: Ambivalent Attachments: Orienting toward Family in Vietnamerica and The Best We Could Do -- Chapter 3: "Like a Fucked Family": Intergenerational and Queer Vietnamese Traumas -- Chapter 4: Embodying Memory and Remembering Race -- Epilogue: Shattered Relationalities, Fetishizing Trauma and the Task of Representation Summary "This book examines the family as a site of articulation for Vietnamese American experiences of racialization, identity, and trauma through an analysis of the art, literature, music, and film by the children of Vietnamese refugees"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2024) Subject Vietnamese American families. Vietnamese Americans -- Ethnic identity Children of immigrants -- United States -- Intellectual life Generational trauma. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies. Children of immigrants -- Intellectual life Generational trauma Vietnamese American families Vietnamese Americans -- Ethnic identity United States Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book LC no. 2023033039 ISBN 1439924716 9781439924716

Other Titles Intimacies of intergenerational trauma in Vietnamese American cultural production

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