Dear Jeremy, Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask] v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu ____________________________________________________________ Fantasy, desire, and community in Vietnamese American popular culture THE AMERICAN DREAM IN VIETNAMESE By Nhi T. Lieu University of Minnesota Press | 216 pages | 2011 ISBN 978-0-8166-6570-9 | paperback | $22.50 ISBN 978-0-8166-6569-3 | hardcover | $67.50 The American Dream in Vietnamese examines how live music variety shows and videos, beauty pageants, and Web sites created by and for Vietnamese Americans contributed to the shaping of their cultural identity. Nhi T. Lieu shows how popular culture forms repositories for conflicting expectations of assimilation, cultural preservation, and invention, alongside gendered and classed dimensions of ethnic and diasporic identity. PRAISE FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM IN VIETNAMESE: "Nhi T. Lieu insightfully demonstrates how important popular culture is to the self-fashioning 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 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nhi T. Lieu is assistant professor of American studies, Asian American studies, and women’s and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/lieu_american.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/mediaalert.html Please email me if you have any questions. -- Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask] v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 ______________ Anastasia Scott Marketing Assistant University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Ave. S., Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 www.upress.umn.edu 612-627-1933 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]