Cold War friendships : Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American literature
Park, Josephine Nock-HeeAuthor
'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 United States via difficult attachments.
Specialized.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'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 United States via difficult attachments.
Specialized.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 7, 2016).
American literature
Cold War in literature
Cold War in motion pictures
Imperialism in literature
Imperialism in motion pictures
American Literature
English
Languages & Literatures