Cover; Cold War Friendships; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Making Friendlies; Part I Securing the Korean War; 1. Lesser Friends; 2. Faithless Warrior: Richard E. Kim's The Martyred; 3. Loving Freedom in Susan Choi's The Foreign Student; 4. Inhuman Alliances: Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered; Part II Reviving the War in Vietnam; 5. Losing Friends; 6. Goddess of Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip's Memoirs; 7. Fabricating Friends in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge; 8. Shame and Love: Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary
"Drawing on epochal films such as The Manchurian Candidate and Samuel Fuller's Steel Helmet, in addition to landmark literature by the likes of Richard Kim, Chang-rae Lee, Susan Choi, Le Ly Hayslip, and Maxine Hong Kingston, Cold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the American wars in Korea and Vietnam"-- Provided by publisher
