Description
Book SynopsisFantasy, desire, and community in Vietnamese American popular culture.
Trade Review"Nhi T. Lieu insightfully demonstrates how important popular culture is to the self-fasionioning of Vietnamese Americans. Her groundbreaking book validates what many Vietnamese Americans demonstrate in their everyday lives: that the pursuit of leisure and the rituals of entertainment are as crucial to community formation as political advancement and economic empowerment." —Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Private Desires on Public Display
1. Assimilation and Ambivalence: Legacies of U.S. Military Intervention
2. Vietnamese by Other Means: The Overlapping Diasporas of Little Saigon
3. Pageantry and Nostalgia: Beauty Contests and the Gendered Homeland
4. Consuming Transcendent Media: Videos, Variety Shows, and the New Middle Class
Conclusion: Transnational Flows between the Diaspora and the Homeland
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
