The broken country : on trauma, a crime and the continuing legacy of Vietnam

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Label

The broken country : on trauma, a crime and the continuing legacy of Vietnam

Title remainder

on trauma, a crime and the continuing legacy of Vietnam

Statement of responsibility

Paisley Rekdal

Title variation

On trauma, a crime and the continuing legacy of Vietnam

Creator

• Rekdal, Paisley

Author

• Rekdal, Paisley

Subject

• Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
• Mentally ill homeless persons -- United States
• Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Vietnamese Americans -- History -- 20th century
• War and society -- Vietnam
• Ly, Kiet Thanh, 1978-
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- United States
• Immigrants -- Crimes against -- Vietnam
• War -- Psychological aspects
• War and society -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

959.7043

Index

no index present

LC call number

• E184.V53
• DS559.63

LC item number

• R453 2017
• .R453 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction