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The broken country : on trauma, a crime, and the continuing legacy of Vietnam /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rekdal, Paisley (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Series:Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction.
Subjects:
Vietnamese Americans > History > 20th century.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Ly, Kiet Thanh, > 1975-
Mentally ill homeless persons > United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Veterans > United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Vietnamese.
War > Psychological aspects.
War and society > United States.
War and society > Vietnam.
Immigrants > Crimes against > Vietnam.
Crime.
Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
Violence.

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