Orientalizing Vietnam: The American Cold War, its “Problems” with Refugee Handicraft Artisans, and their Relationship to Barthes’s Mythology

This paper examines discourses of orientalism narrating the political and cultural significance of representations of Vietnamese handicraft that the U.S. State Department’s International Cooperation Administration’s handicraft production and export program in Southeast Asia published in American cra...

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Main Author: Jennifer Way
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2012-11-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2583