Description
Book SynopsisHow gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora
Trade Review"[The book] makes a considerable and commendable contribution to the interdisciplinary fields of Asian-American literary studies, Southeast Asian-American studies, and American cultural studies... Treacherous Subjects confirms and extends the field's multidisciplinary vistas by way of Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American cultural production, which include film, literature, and popular culture... [It] skillfully juxtaposes the divergent critical receptions of such work vis-a-vis domestic and internationalist politics." - College Literature
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Manufacturing Feminine Virtue for the Diaspora: The Films of Tony Bui; and Tran Anh Hung; Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Narratives: Traitors and Collaborators; in Vietnamese Women's Diasporic Literature; Heroines and Traitors: The Gendered Fictions of ??ng Nh?t Minh and; D??ng Th? H??ng; Traitors and Translators: Reframing Trinh T. Minh-ha's Surname Viet; Given Name Nam and A Tale of Love; Betraying Feminine Virtue: Collaborative Effects and the Transnational Circuits; of Vietnamese Popular Culture; Family Politics and the Art of Collaboration; Works Cited; Notes.
