This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature

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affirmative action, 57 Amerasia Journal, 48 anticommunism, 8, 46, 148n61, 158n25, 166n11 Asian American literature. See literature, Asian American Asian Americans: Asians, as distinct from, 22–23; as category, 169n1; identity politics of, 55, 104; as model minorities, 13, 14–15, 16, 67, 72–73, 123, 161n13; position of in U.S. racial hierarchy, 15–16; stereotypes of, 77, 78. See also Vietnamese Americans Asian American studies, 4; Chuh on, 55; as discourse, 55; limits of, 44, 54; and neocolonialism, 160n1; Nguyen on, 55; panethnicity in, 45, 156n12; race, class, and gender in, 44; and self-determination, 46; transnationalism in, 55; and Vietnamese American literature, 3, 44–45, 46–47; and Vietnamese American studies, 55, 155n1 As Is, 40, 59 assimilation: in dust and conscience, 110, 111; Gordon on, 57; Park on, 56–57; theories of, 56–57; to U.S. culture, 2, 20, 145n37; in Vietnamese American literature, 92, 95–96, 110, 111. See also immigrants, Vietnamese American; Vietnamese Americans Bakhtin, Mikhail, 102 Bascara, Victor, 160n1 Beam, Louis, 14 Benfey, Christopher, 126 Benjamin, Walter, 88, 151n31 Black Dog, Black Night (Do and Hoover), 33 Boat, The (Le), 118–119; critical reception of, 166 n.1. Book of Salt, The (Truong): critical reception of, 38–39, 126–127; exoticization, resistance to, 127; publication of, 125; work in, 127 Bourdieu, Pierre, 107–108, 165n11 Bush, George H.W., 15, 157n17 Bush, George W., 7, 139n1, 140n3 Butler, Robert Olen, 129–30, 132; Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, A, 129–132 Campomanes, Oscar, 47, 156n10 Index 192 / index Cao, Lan, 3, 65, 104, 121; Monkey Bridge, 3, 36, 37, 65, 86–100, 139n3 Cao, Tan, 23, 24 Catfish and Mandala (Pham), 3, 36, 54, 65–85, 121–123; abandonment in, 67–68; anger in, 70–73, 76, 82–83; as creative nonfiction, 122; critical reception of, 123, 139n2; domestic violence in, 66–67, 70–71, 73–74, 162n18; exile in, 80; family in, 77; guilt in, 73–75, 76, 82–83; healing in, 82; heteronormativity in, 163n27; hybridity in, 100; identity formation in, 79, 81, 99, 163n31; as immigrant story, 122; intergenerational conflict in, 67, 78; internalized racism in, 78; masculinity in, 75–79, 81, 164n48; memory in, 80, 83; model minority myth in, 67, 72–73; and multiculturalism, 77; protagonist as cultural bridge, 122–123; racism in, 69–70, 73; reception of, 121; reeducation camps in, 74; survivor’s guilt in, 75; trauma in, 68–69, 161n14; Viet Nam War in, 122 Chan, Jeffery Paul, 112, 162n15 Chan, Sucheng, 45, 48, 56, 163n33 Cheung, King-Kok, 47, 48 Chin, Frank, 71, 78–79, 162n15 Choy, Catherine Ceniza, 160n2 Chuh, Kandace, 55 Chung, Chuong, 46 civil rights movement, U.S., 18, 45 Cleveland Elementary School massacre (Stockton, CA), 14 Clinton, Bill, 17 Collier, Rebeka, 163n27 Collins, Rebekah, 142n11, 163n29 colonialism: and gender, 165n20; and hybridity, 49; and imperialism, 142n13; Memmi on, 77; psychic costs of, 130. See also colonialism, French. colonialism, French, 142n13; opium policy, 161n10; role of education in, 93, 113, 131; sexual coercion under, 98–99, 164n47. See also Viet Nam De Certeau, Michel, 98 Deer Hunter, The, 90–91 Derrida, Jacques, 65 diaspora, Vietnamese, xii, 32, 137; population demographics, 141n9 diaspora studies: and dehistoricization, 56; and depoliticization, 53, 56; and pan-Asian American coalition building, 53 Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), 139n1 Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, 142n12 Dinh, Linh, 4, 128, 130, 165n17, 166n24; critics, response to, 131–132, 168n51; Fake House, 4, 111–117, 128–132; “555,” 112–113, 128, 130; “Hope and Standard,” 113–115, 128; Night, Again, 32–33; women, representation of, 128, 130 Do, Hien, 46, 154n52 Doi Moi, 31, 136 Duong, Lan, 158n26 dust and conscience (Truong Tran), 3, 36, 54, 102–111, 116–117; assimilation in, 110, 111; authenticity in, 110; betrayal in, 110; and exoticism, 109–110; exile in, 106; fluid identity in, 105; home in, 104–109; identity formation in, 107, 108; and identity politics, 103; narrative fragmentation of, 111; narrative ruptures in, 109–110; nationalism in, 110; reception of, 116–117; and representationality, 103, 116; role of nation in, 105; suspension of language in, 108 Eliot, T.S., 86 Elliott, Duong Van Mai, 38, 125, 154nn59, 60 Enloe, Cynthia, 165n20 Espiritu, Yen Le, 46, 48, 49, 59; on refugee narratives, 153n48 index / 193 essentialism, 135, 167n24, 169n1 ethnic authorship, 132 ethnic studies, 4, 36, 46; Chan on, 56; Nguyen on, 56; and Vietnamese American literary studies...