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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.
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book's webpage:
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