When Asian Americans "Return" to Asia: Immigration, War, and Memory

This book studies Sansei, Vietnamese refugee, and Korean adoptee¿s transnational experience in their Asian ¿home countries and views the accounts of their experience as ¿return narratives.It concerns how Asian American subjectivity evolves through Asian Americans¿ interaction with Asian community. By analyzing how the narrative subjects represent and renegotiate their relations with their Asian homelands, The book points out that the historical traces of the World War Two, the Vietnam War, and the Korean War complicate Sansei, refugee, and adoptee¿s relations with their Asian homelands respectively and hence make Asia a site of contradiction in their Asian American identity.