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Americas Vietnam\nby Marguerite Nguyen\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Marguerite Nguyen\nTitle: Americas Vietnam\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: general\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S.\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781439916124\nISBN-10: 1439916128\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nAmerica\u2019s Vietnam challenges the prevailing genealogy of Vietnam\u2019s emergence in the American imagination\u2014one that presupposes the Vietnam War as the starting point of meaningful Vietnamese-U.S. political and cultural involvements. Examining literature from as early as the 1820s, Marguerite Nguyen takes a comparative, long historical approach to interpreting constructions of Vietnam in American literature. She analyzes works in va.