The UCSD Social Sciences & Humanities Library presents:

Yen Le Espiritu

Professor and chair of the UCSD Ethnic Studies Department

“Body Counts: The Vietnam War, the Refugees, and the Writing of Ghost Stories”

Thursday, May 26, 2011
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Seuss Room in the Geisel Library building
Refreshments will be served.
No RSVP is necessary.

Free and open to the public

lę thi diem thúy, the author of The Gangster We Are All Looking For, describes Vietnamese refugees as a “people larger than their life situation.” Drawing on lę’s novel, Yen Le Espiritu explores how the oft-strained family relations among Vietnamese refugees are not simply a private family matter, but a social, historical, and transnational affair. In telling their own stories, Vietnamese in the United States have created alternative memories and epistemologies that unsettle and challenge the established public narratives of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese people.

For additional information-- http://blog.ucsd.edu/sshl/2011/05/05/body-counts/