{"product_id":"the-distant-shores-of-freedom-subarno-chattarji-9789388271479","title":"The Distant Shores of Freedom: Vietnamese American Memoirs and Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Distant Shores of Freedom \u003c\/i\u003eanalyses 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDwelling not only on the war and its aftermaths, Vietnamese American writings also ponder over the existential issues of exile; the idea of home; the pain of marginality and racism; the question of community formation within the US; and the complexity of diasporic lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSubarno Chattarji raises critical questions such as who gets to speak and write, and to what ends and purposes? Who reads Vietnamese American writings and how can we account for these publications in the US over a period of time? What can and cannot be written or spoken? What is remembered and what is silenced? What traumas and memories are articulated? These questions point towards a larger context of diaspora studies as well as 'the rituals of cultural memory' that complicate our understanding of the Vietnam War and its aftermaths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Subarno Chattarji\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9388271475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789388271479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Subarno Chattarji","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47244321456383,"sku":"9789388271479","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8d216746-4906-4043-bc77-797b44224c9f.jpg?v=1758135458","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-distant-shores-of-freedom-subarno-chattarji-9789388271479","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}