Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Park, Josephine Nock-Hee
Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Park, Josephine Nock-Hee

Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature

Cold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the American wars in Korea and...
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Author: Josephine Nock-Hee Park
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Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Park, Josephine Nock-Hee

Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature

BD$104.82
Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Park, Josephine Nock-Hee

Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature

BD$104.82
Author: Josephine Nock-Hee Park
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Cold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the American wars in Korea and Vietnam. Enlisted into proxy warfare, this figure is not a friend but a "friendly," a wartime convenience enlisted to serve a superpower. It is through this deeply unequal relation, however, that the Cold War friendly secures her own integrity and insists upon her place in the neocolonial imperium. This study reads a set of highly enterprising wartime subjects who make their way to the US via difficult attachments.

American forces ventured into newly postcolonial Korea and Vietnam, both plunged into civil wars, to draw the dividing line of the Cold War. The strange success of containment and militarization in Korea unraveled in Vietnam, but the friendly marks the significant continuity between these hot wars. In both cases, the friendly justified the fight: she was also a political necessity who redeployed cold war alliances, and, remarkably, made her way to America.

As subjects in process--and indeed, proto-Americans--these figures are prime literary subjects, whose processes of becoming are on full display in Asian American novels and testimonies of these wars. Literary writings on both of these conflicts are presently burgeoning, and Cold War Friendships performs close analyses of key texts whose stylistic constraints and contradictions--shot through with political and historical nuance--present complex gestures of alliance.


Author: Josephine Nock-Hee Park
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/01/2016
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780190257675


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2016

About the Author

Josephine Nock-Hee Park is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics was awarded the Literary Book Award by the Association for Asian American Studies.

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