Lan P. Duong: Treacherous Subjects

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>How gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439901779&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Treacherous Subjects</h1> <H2>Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism</H2> <h3>Lan P. Duong</h3> <P>cloth 1-43990-177-5 $78.50, Apr 12, <FONT COLOR=#990033></FONT> <br>paper 1-43990-178-3 $26.95, Apr 12, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-43990-179-1 $26.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033></FONT> <BR> 264 pp 6x9 15 halftones </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Duong's </I>Treacherous Subjects<I> inaugurates </I>sui generis<I> the field of diasporic Vietnamese feminism. She instructs us what objects and subjects to look at and study, how they might be comprehended, and why such inquiry is so crucial for all of us. I can't think of another cultural studies project in a decade that has accomplished so much in one book. Duong's careful consideration of both filmic and literary genres demonstrates her explicatory erudition. </I>Treacherous Subjects<I> is a monumental work upon which a generation of future students and scholars will build. It will establish Duong as the principal intellectual figure of the field she will have helped to establish."</I> <br>&#151<b>James Kyung-Jin Lee</b>, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine</I></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><i>Treacherous Subjects</i> is a provocative and thoughtful examination of Vietnamese films and literature viewed through a feminist lens. Lan Duong investigates the postwar cultural productions of writers and filmmakers, including Tony Bui, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Tran Anh Hung. <P>Taking her cue from the double meaning of "collaborator," Duong shows how history has shaped the loyalties and shifting alliances of the Vietnamese, many of whom are caught between opposing/constricting forces of nationalism, patriarchy, and communism. Working at home and in France and the United States, the artists profiled in <i>Treacherous Subjects</i> have grappled with the political and historic meanings of collaboration. These themes, which probe into controversial issues of family and betrayal, figure heavily in fictions such as the films <i>The Scent of Green Papaya</i> and <i>Surname Viet Given Name Nam</i>. <P>As writers and filmmakers collaborate, Duong suggests that they lay the groundwork for both transnational feminist politics and queer critiques of patriarchy. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"</I>Treacherous Subjects<I> offers a new reading of literary and filmic texts by Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporics that rethinks the nation in its gendered, sexualized, and political economic representations. Duong argues that Vietnamese writers and filmmakers from Vietnam, France, and the U.S. evoke the family to imagine the body politic, which is now a transnational one. Duong's methods are very innovative. In each chapter, she pairs works by artists in different national contexts. Her approach allows for new ways to think through a number of issues with political import. I know of few books that put forth this reading which problematizes the nation and its heteronormative boundaries as effectively as this work does."</I><br>&#151<b>Nguyen-vo Thu-huong</b>, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies, UCLA <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Acknowledgments <br>Introduction <br>1. Manufacturing Feminine Virtue for the Diaspora: The Films of Tony Bui and Tran Anh Hung <br>2. Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Narratives: Traitors and Collaborators in Vietnamese Women’s Diasporic Literature <br>3. Heroines and Traitors: The Gendered Fictions of Đặng Nhật Minh and Dương Thư Hương <br>4. Traitors and Translators: Reframing Trinh T. Minh-ha’s <i>Surname Viet Given Name Nam</i> and <i>A Tale of Love</i> <br>5. Betraying Feminine Virtue: Collaborative Effects and the Transnational Circuits of Vietnamese Popular Culture <br>Conclusion: Family Politics and the Art of Collaboration <br>Notes <br>Works Cited <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Lan P. Duong</b> is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/literature.html" TARGET="_top">Literature and Drama</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/asian_amer.html" TARGET="_top">Asian American Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/cultural.html" TARGET="_top">Cultural Studies</a> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/asam_history.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Asian American History and Culture</a></i>, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ. </p><p>The "standard" written histories of Asian immigrants to the United States have been imbued with Western cultural biases. As a critique and corrective to earlier work, <I>Asian American History and Culture</I>, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ, aims to develop a history of Asian Americans that is compatible with their own experience, that treats Asian Americans as agents of historical change and as creators of a new culture. In addition, this series intends to focus on the groups that are flourishing in the contemporary U.S.&#151Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese&#151about whom little has been written as well as to add to the substantial work done on the Chinese and Japanese in this country.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439901779&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2013 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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