The broken country
on trauma, a crime, and the continuing legacy of Vietnam
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Word Count
36,750 words, Guess
Page Count
147 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebrokencountryont0000rekd
- ISBN-100820351172
- ISBN-139780820351179
- ISBN-139780820351186
- ISBN-100820351180
and 7 more
- AmazonB075Q3NQCC
- Library of Congress Control Number2017947226
- OCLC Control Number981118287
- Better World Books9780820351179
- Better World Books9780820351186
- Better World Booksp8-bxw-498
- Open LibraryOL26931898M
Classifications
- DDC959.7043
- LCCE184.V53 R453 2017
- LCCDS559.63 .R453 2017
and 1 more
- LCCE184.V53R45 2017
Alternate Titles
- On trauma, a crime, and the continuing legacy of Vietnam
Description
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.
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Series Statement
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
Other Editions
- The broken country: on trauma, a crime, and the continuing legacy of Vietnam
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