The Distant Shores of Freedom: Vietnamese American Memoirs and Fiction

by Subarno Chattarji

The Distant Shores of Freedom analyses literary works in English written by Vietnamese refugees in the US. Fiction and memoirs by Vietnamese Americans recover stories and memories that are often different from mainstream American ones and that difference enables readers to think of the US war in Vietnam from perspectives that are missing in mainstream representations.

Dwelling not only on the war and its aftermaths, Vietnamese American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9388271475
• ISBN13: 9789388271479
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India
• Length: 320 Pages