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Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy. "Breaking Laws of Origin: Resistance, Hurt, and Containment in Post-1994 Vietnamese American Literature," University of California, Berkeley, August 2001.
This dissertation traces the identity formation of narrative voices created by Vietnamese American authors of what is known as the “1.5” generation, those who grew up in Vietnam but received their secondary education or spent their early adulthood in the United States. It explores the interstital space occupied and opened by either the narrators or the narration, and how it may vary with class, gender or degree of trauma. The dissertation focuses on three books, representing different narrative genres, published after 1994: Andrew Pham’s memoir Catfish and Mandala (1999), Lan Cao’s novel Monkey Bridge (1997) and Linh Dinh’s collection of short stories Fake House (2000). The approach is multidisciplinary and juxtapose the work of 1970s Asian American literary criticism, which concerned itself with representativeness and authenticity, with today’s preoccupation with difference and mediation, and also forges links with postcolonial studies, feminist literary criticism, and cultural studies of global capitalism. The project situates the texts in the sociological and historical contexts that shaped their formation. Ultimately, I argue that for Vietnamese American Writers of the “1.5” generation, the rhetoric of identity is rooted in what Lisa Lowe calls “laws of origin,” a hegemonic practice whose manifestation has become a precarious site of resistance, affirmation and accommodation. It is a form of representation that continuously redefines, and insidiously shapes, what it means to live, read, and write in the United States while still being unable to identify solely as an American.
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