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The Oriental obscene : violence and racial fantasies in the Vietnam era
Title
The Oriental obscene : violence and racial fantasies in the Vietnam era / Sylvia Shin Huey Chong.
ISBN
9780822348405 (cloth)
9780822348542 (pbk.)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xiii, 364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 24, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-351) and index.
Contents
Introduction : specters of Vietnam
Bringing the war home : spectacles of violence and rebellion in the American 1968
Reporting the war : ethical crises of action in the movement-image of Vietnam
Restaging the war : fantasizing defeat in Hollywood's Vietnam
Kung Fu fighting : pacifying and mastering the martial body
Being Bruce Lee : death and the limits of the movement-image of martial arts
Conclusion : returning to 'Nam : the Vietnam veteran's orientalized body.
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