{"id":23534,"date":"2012-05-30T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23534"},"modified":"2014-03-16T22:27:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T22:27:02","slug":"this-is-all-i-choose-to-tell-history-and-hybridity-in-vietnamese-american-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23534","title":{"rendered":"This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Temple University Press<\/a>
\nNovember 2010
\n216 pages
\n5.5 x 8.5
\n1 halftone
\npaper ISBN: 978-1-43990-217-2
\ncloth ISBN: 978-1-43990-216-5
\neBook ISBN: 978-1-43990-218-9<\/p>\n

Isabelle Thuy Pelaud<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies (founder of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN).)
\nSan Francisco State University<\/em><\/p>\n

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An introduction to the themes of a still-evolving American ethnic literature<\/em><\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Her readings of key works, such as Andrew Pham’s Catfish and Mandala<\/em> and Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge<\/em> show how trauma, race, class and gender play a role in shaping the identities of Vietnamese American characters and narrators.<\/p>\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n