Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Autore: | Pelaud Isabelle Thuy <1965-> |
Titolo: | This is all I choose to tell : history and hybridity in Vietnamese American literature / / Isabelle Thuy Pelaud |
Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9/895922073 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | History -- Overview -- Hybridity -- Race, class, gender and survival -- Hope & despair -- Reception. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 focu |
Titolo autorizzato: | This is all I choose to tell |
ISBN: | 9786613133793 |
1-283-13379-2 | |
1-4399-0218-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812748003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |