Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue

by J. Winston (Editor), L. Chau-Pech (Editor)

Overview

A rich space of criticism and document, Of Vietnam moves contemporary figurings of Vietnam out of the nostalgic enclaves of the past and the stagnant places of a mythological present into the rich potential of our historical epoch. This provocative book is the first to bring together works by photographers, established and unpublished writers, poets, and artists from Vietnam and its diasporas, and critical pieces by scholars of anthropology, art history, history, and literary and cultural studies. Focusing on issues of identity, displacement, language, sexuality, and class, their contributions challenge and encourage readers to experience the multiplicity of experiences that make up the fabric of identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349386598
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/08/2002
Edition description:	1st ed. 2001
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

JANE BRADLEY WINSTON is Assistant Professor of French at Northwestern University. Her book, Postcolonial Duras is forthcoming.

LEAKTHINA CHAU-PECH OLLIER is Assistant Professor of French at Bowdoin College. She has written on women's autobiography and Asian women writers of the Diaspora.

Table of Contents

Introduction; J.B.Winston After Zigzagging; L.Donh Rap Music; N.Q.Chanh Playing with Identities: Everyday Pleasures in Colonial Vietnam; E.J.Peters Moving Along the Edge of Summer; P.H.Thu Cultural Encounters in French Colonial Literature; P.Laude After Seven Days at a Hotel with T; P.N.Hao French Natural in the Vietnamese Highlands: Nostalgia and Erasure in Montagnard Identity; H.Jonsson Orthotics for Easter; N.D.Thuong A Cross-Cultural Context for Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Writing; R.Christopher Saigon Pull; L.Dinh Welcome to America; M.T.D.Truong 'You Don't Know This But I Keep Telling You': Memory and Disavowal in Monique Thuy-Dung Truong's 'Kelly': K.A.Britto The Rivers Have Not Only Me; V.C.Hai Raindrops on Red Flags: Tran Trong Vu and the Roots of Vietnamese Painting Abroad; N.A.Taylor City Streets 1; H.Hung Fire; A.Lam The Postcolonial Cinema of Lam Le: Screens, the Sacred and the Unhomely in Poussiére d'empire ; P.Norindr A Conversation with Linh Dinh; L.C.P.Ollier Tran Anh Hung's Orphan Tales; M.Bacholle A Worthy Resume; Y.Ban A Conversation with Y.Ban; Q.P.Tran Across Colonial Borders: Patriarchal Constraints and Vietnamese Women in the Novels of Ly Thu Ho; N.Nguyen The Sparrows Fly Across the Woods; V.T.X.Ha A Conversation with Vo Thi Xuan Ha; Q.P.Tran Colonialism and Power in Maguerite Duras's The Lover ; J.A.Yeager Morning Light; I.T.Pelaud Consuming Culture: Linda Lê's Authofiction; L.C.P.Ollier Earth Cafeteria; L.Dinh