{"product_id":"return-engagements-9781478010388","title":"Return Engagements","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVi?t Lê examines contemporary art in Cambodia and Vi?t Nam to trace the entwinement of militarization, trauma, diaspora, and modernity in Southeast Asian art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Việt Lê writes with flair and passion of difficult subjects: war, trauma, the art and visual culture of the Vietnamese and Cambodian diasporas. With a critic's nuanced eye and a practitioner's sensitivity, his framings and readings of provocative, complicated work evoke the beauty of the artists' visions and yet always return us to the history and the present of the artists' lives, careers, and countries. \u003ci\u003eReturn Engagements\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant work to which I will return.” -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of * The Sympathizer *\u003cbr\u003e“Việt Lê moves the scholarly conversation about displacement away from the traditional state boundaries toward a much-needed examination of diaspora, (un)settlement, and return while offering a capacious rethinking of refugee-ness, displaced personhood, and diasporic selfhood. \u003ci\u003eReturn Engagements\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative and compelling work of curatorially driven art criticism.” -- Cathy Schlund-Vials, author of * War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this elegantly produced study of contemporary art in Cambodia and Vietnam, Việt Lê explores the multiple valences of return—as a yield that is more than financial, a journey that is deeply personal and a recurrence of history that is multi-temporal.\" -- Penny Edwards * Sojourn *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface  xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xxi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Risky Returns, Restagings, and Revolution  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. What Remains: Silence, Confrontation, and Traumatic Memory  57\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Art Part: Việtt Kiều Artists, Divides and Desires in Sài Gòn  105\u003cbr\u003e 3. Personal and Public Archives: Fragments and (Post)Colonial Memory  150\u003cbr\u003e 4. Town and Country: Sopheap Pich's and Phan Quang's Urban-Rural Developments  189\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Leaving and Returns  239\u003cbr\u003e Notes  245\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  301\u003cbr\u003e Index  315","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408988021079,"sku":"9781478010388","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478010388.jpg?v=1730504982","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/return-engagements-9781478010388","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}