Memory Is Another Country: Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora

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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Lost Photographs; Chapter 2. Sisters and Memories; Chapter 3. Women in Uniform; Chapter 4. Fragments of War; Chapter 5. Love across Cultures; Chapter 6. Return Journeys; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y.;The act of remembering is a means of bringing the past alive, and an imaginative way of dealing with loss. It has been the subject of much recent scholarship, and is of particular relevance at a time of widespread transnational migration. For refugees, memory acquires a particular power and poignancy, since the country that they remember is now lost to them. The memories of Vietnamese refugees have been molded by their experience of diaspora, and many guard these memories with silence, a silence that relates not only to the departure from Vietnam and the exodus itself, but also to the impact o.