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The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam

The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam

Rekdal, Paisley

Paperback

Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, Book 30

Asian American StudiesCriminologyVietnam War

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 0820351172
ISBN13: 9780820351179
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Sep 15 2017
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident--in which a young homeless man born in Vietnam stabbed a number of white men purportedly in retribution for the war--Paisley Rekdal draws on a remarkable range of material and fashions it into a compelling account of the dislocations suffered by the Vietnamese and also by American-born veterans over the past decades. She interweaves a narrative about the crime with information collected in interviews, historical examination of the arrival of Vietnamese immigrants in the 1970s, a critique of portrayals of Vietnam in American popular culture, and discussions of the psychological consequences of trauma. This work allows us to better understand transgenerational and cultural trauma and advances our still complicated struggle to comprehend the war.

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