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This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature
Temple University Press, 2010 Paper: 978-1-4399-0217-2 | Cloth: 978-1-4399-0216-5 | eISBN: 978-1-4399-0218-9 Library of Congress Classification PS153.V54P45 2010 Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9895922073
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics. She provides an analytical introduction to the literature, showing how generational differences play out in genre and text. In addition, she asks, can the term Vietnamese American be disassociated from representations of the war without erasing its legacy? Pelaud delineates the historical, social, and cultural terrains of the writing as well as the critical receptions and responses to them. She moves beyond the common focus on the Vietnam war to develop an interpretive framework that integrates post-colonialism with the multi-generational refugee, immigrant, and transnational experiences at the center of Vietnamese American narratives. Her readings of key works, such as Andrew Pham's Catfish and Mandala and Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge show how trauma, racism, class and gender play a role in shaping the identities of Vietnamese American characters and narrators. See other books on: Asian American | History in literature | Literature and the war | Race in literature | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 See other titles from Temple University Press |
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This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Temple University Press, 2010
Paper: 978-1-4399-0217-2
Cloth: 978-1-4399-0216-5
eISBN: 978-1-4399-0218-9
Paper: 978-1-4399-0217-2
Cloth: 978-1-4399-0216-5
eISBN: 978-1-4399-0218-9
In the first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics. She provides an analytical introduction to the literature, showing how generational differences play out in genre and text. In addition, she asks, can the term Vietnamese American be disassociated from representations of the war without erasing its legacy?
Pelaud delineates the historical, social, and cultural terrains of the writing as well as the critical receptions and responses to them. She moves beyond the common focus on the Vietnam war to develop an interpretive framework that integrates post-colonialism with the multi-generational refugee, immigrant, and transnational experiences at the center of Vietnamese American narratives.
Her readings of key works, such as Andrew Pham's Catfish and Mandala and Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge show how trauma, racism, class and gender play a role in shaping the identities of Vietnamese American characters and narrators.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
