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

"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nguyên, Linh Thuʼy, 1968- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2024.
Series:	Asian American history and culture.
Subjects:	Vietnamese American families. Vietnamese Americans > Ethnic identity. Children of immigrants > United States > Intellectual life. Generational trauma. Familles américaines d'origine vietnamienne. Américains d'origine vietnamienne > Identité ethnique. Enfants d'immigrants > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle. Traumatisme intergénérationnel. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies.
Physical Description:	xiii, 197 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:	Intimacies of intergenerational trauma in Vietnamese American cultural production
Format:	Book

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.