"Provides a vital corrective to the misrepresentations of the war that have plagued us for so long and allowed us to construct Viet Nam as the exclusive tragedy of the United States. I learned a great deal from her book, which I will use in my own writing and teaching."—Lynne Hanley, author of Writing War: Fiction, Gender, and Memory
"As far as I know, there has been no study like this one, which spans a broad range of Vietnamese and Euro-American works in a comparative context. Christopher's socioliterary exploration of the ways Asians have been imaged in the discourse of several wars and significant social events is brilliant."—Vince Gotera, author of Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans