{"product_id":"cold-war-friendships-josephine-nock-hee-park-9780190257675","title":"Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature","description":"\u003cem\u003eCold War Friendships\u003c\/em\u003e 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 US via difficult attachments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerican forces ventured into newly postcolonial Korea and Vietnam, both plunged into civil wars, to draw the dividing line of the Cold War. The strange success of containment and militarization in Korea unraveled in Vietnam, but the friendly marks the significant continuity between these hot wars. In both cases, the friendly justified the fight: she was also a political necessity who redeployed cold war alliances, and, remarkably, made her way to America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs subjects in process--and indeed, proto-Americans--these figures are prime literary subjects, whose processes of becoming are on full display in Asian American novels and testimonies of these wars. Literary writings on both of these conflicts are presently burgeoning, and \u003cem\u003eCold War Friendships\u003c\/em\u003e performs close analyses of key texts whose stylistic constraints and contradictions--shot through with political and historical nuance--present complex gestures of alliance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josephine Nock-Hee Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190257679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190257675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2016","brand":"Josephine Nock-Hee Park","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054615949567,"sku":"9780190257675","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a802dab-1a46-492e-8f80-06e84128ae51.jpg?v=1685030982","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cold-war-friendships-josephine-nock-hee-park-9780190257675","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}