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- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996
- Asian American Literature In Transition
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Immigration, Migration, and Movement
- Part II Politics, Art, and Activism
- Chapter 5 Furious Dialectics: Diasporic Anger in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee
- Chapter 6 Asian American Literature and the Vietnam War
- Chapter 7 Cross-racial Solidarities and Asian American Literature
- Chapter 8 Re/collecting Asian American Performance
- Chapter 9 Multiculturalism and Its Discontents
- Part III Institutionalization and Canon Formation
- Part IV Diaspora and the Transnational Turn
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - Asian American Literature and the Vietnam War
from Part II - Politics, Art, and Activism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2021
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996
- Asian American Literature In Transition
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Immigration, Migration, and Movement
- Part II Politics, Art, and Activism
- Chapter 5 Furious Dialectics: Diasporic Anger in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee
- Chapter 6 Asian American Literature and the Vietnam War
- Chapter 7 Cross-racial Solidarities and Asian American Literature
- Chapter 8 Re/collecting Asian American Performance
- Chapter 9 Multiculturalism and Its Discontents
- Part III Institutionalization and Canon Formation
- Part IV Diaspora and the Transnational Turn
- References
- Index
Summary
The Vietnam War and the anti-war movement are oftentimes discussed as foundational in the formation of Asian American political consciousness and representation during the late 1960s and 1970s. However, Asian American literature of that time offers very little engagement with the war or the anti-war movement. This chapter offers an overview of representations of the Vietnam War in Asian American literature and examines the possible reasons for the sparse representations of the war. In doing so, this chapter turns to an archive of ephemera: radical Asian American periodicals that represented the Asian American movement, and the first Asian American readers and anthologies, Roots: An Asian American Reader (1971) and Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America (1976).
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- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996 , pp. 106 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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