Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism

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Treacherous Subjects In the series asian american history and culture edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ Christian Collet and Pei-te Lien, eds., The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans Min Zhou, Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation Kathleen S. Yep, Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground Benito M. Vergara, Jr. Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City Jonathan Y. Okamura, Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai‘i Sucheng Chan and Madeline Y. Hsu, eds., Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture K. Scott Wong, Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War Lisa Yun, The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba Estella Habal, San Francisco’s International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement Thomas P. Kim, The Racial Logic of Politics: Asian Americans and Party Competition Sucheng Chan, ed., The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings Antonio T. Tiongson Jr., Edgardo V. Gutierrez, and Ricardo V. Gutierrez, eds., Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building Communities and Discourse Sucheng Chan, ed., Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era Rajini Srikanth, The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America Keith Lawrence and Floyd Cheung, eds., Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature Linda Trinh Võ, Mobilizing an Asian American Community Franklin S. Odo, No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai’i during World War II Josephine Lee, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa, eds., Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History Linda Trinh Võ and Rick Bonus, eds., Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences Sunaina Marr Maira, Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City Treacherous Subjects Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism lan p. duong Temple University Press philadelphia Temple University Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2012 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2012 library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Duong, Lan P., 1972– Treacherous subjects : gender, culture, and trans-Vietnamese feminism / Lan P. Duong. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4399-0177-9 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4399-0178-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4399-0179-3 (e-book) 1. American literature—Vietnamese American authors 2. American literature— 20th century—History and criticism. 3. American literature—21st century—History and criticism. 4. Vietnamese diaspora. 5. Authorship—Collaboration. 6. Motion pictures—Production and direction. I. Title. PS508.V54D86 2012 810.8'089592073—dc23 2011043062 The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992 Printed in the United States of America 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org. ...