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The Vietnamese American “Model Orphan” in Aimee Phan’s We Should Never Meet - Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 49, Number 3, September 2016
- pp. 109-125
- 10.1353/mos.2016.a630347
- Article
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Abstract
This essay examines Aimee Phan’s fiction concerning Vietnamese orphans and adoptees coming of age in Southern California. Engaging the transnational dimensions of U.S. ideologies of democracy, family, and race, this essay explores a “model orphan” construct that expands mainstream narratives of the Vietnamese American refugee and model minority.
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