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Returns of War - South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory (Paperback)
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Returns of War - South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory (Paperback)
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The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of
Vietnamese refugees In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism,
marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam War. Although this
former ally of the United States has vanished from the world map,
Long T. Bui maintains that its memory endures for refugees with a
strong attachment to this ghost country. Blending ethnography with
oral history, archival research, and cultural analysis, Returns of
War considers Returns of War argues that Vietnamization--as Richard
Nixon termed it in 1969--and the end of South Vietnam signals more
than an example of flawed American military strategy, but a larger
allegory of power, providing cover for U.S. imperial losses while
denoting the inability of the (South) Vietnamese and other
colonized nations to become independent, modern liberal subjects.
Bui argues that the collapse of South Vietnam under Vietnamization
complicates the already difficult memory of the Vietnam War,
pushing for a critical understanding of South Vietnamese agency
beyond their status as the war's ultimate "losers." Examining the
lasting impact of Cold War military policy and culture upon the
"Vietnamized" afterlife of war, this book weaves questions of
national identity, sovereignty, and self-determination to consider
the generative possibilities of theorizing South Vietnam as an
incomplete, ongoing search for political and personal freedom.
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