Title This is all I choose to tell : history and hybridity in Vietnamese American literature / Isabelle Thuy Pelaud

Published Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 198 pages) : illustrations Series Asian American history and culture Asian American history and culture. Contents History -- Overview -- Hybridity -- Survival -- Hope & despair -- Reception Summary 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 w Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject American literature -- Vietnamese American authors -- History and criticism Vietnamese Americans in literature. Cultural fusion in literature. Multiculturalism in literature. Race in literature. Vietnamese Americans -- Ethnic identity History in literature. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the war LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American. American literature -- Vietnamese American authors Cultural fusion in literature History in literature Multiculturalism in literature Race in literature Vietnamese Americans -- Ethnic identity Vietnamese Americans in literature War and literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2010018210 ISBN 9781439902189 1439902186 9786613133793 6613133795 1283133792 9781283133791

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