{"product_id":"the-american-dream-in-vietnamese-paperback-softback-9780816665709","title":"The American Dream in Vietnamese (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816665709","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe American Dream in Vietnamese\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNhi T. Lieu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816665709\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 April 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.262 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nhi T. Lieu insightfully demonstrates how important popular culture is to the self-fasionioning of Vietnamese Americans. Her groundbreaking book validates what many Vietnamese Americans demonstrate in their everyday lives: that the pursuit of leisure and the rituals of entertainment are as crucial to community formation as political advancement and economic empowerment.\" -Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of \u003ci\u003eRace and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn her research on popular culture of the Vietnamese diaspora, Nhi T. Lieu explores how people displaced by war reconstruct cultural identity in the aftermath of migration. Embracing American democratic ideals and consumer capitalism prior to arriving in the United States, postwar Vietnamese refugees endeavored to assimilate and live the American Dream. In \u003ci\u003eThe American Dream in Vietnamese\u003c\/i\u003e, she claims that nowhere are these fantasies played out more vividly than in the Vietnamese American entertainment industry.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eLieu examines how live music variety shows and videos, beauty pageants, and Web sites created by and for Vietnamese Americans contributed to the shaping of their cultural identity. She shows how popular culture forms repositories for conflicting expectations of assimilation, cultural preservation, and invention, alongside gendered and classed dimensions of ethnic and diasporic identity.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Dream in Vietnamese\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the circulation of images manufactured by both Americans and Vietnamese immigrants serves to produce these immigrants’ paradoxical desires. Within these desires and their representations, Lieu finds the dramatization of the community’s struggle to define itself against the legacy of the refugee label, a classification that continues to pathologize their experiences in American society.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction: Private Desires on Public Display\u003cbr\u003e 1. Assimilation and Ambivalence: Legacies of U.S. Military Intervention\u003cbr\u003e 2. Vietnamese by Other Means: The Overlapping Diasporas of Little Saigon\u003cbr\u003e 3. Pageantry and Nostalgia: Beauty Contests and the Gendered Homeland\u003cbr\u003e 4. Consuming Transcendent Media: Videos, Variety Shows, and the New Middle Class\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Transnational Flows between the Diaspora and the Homeland\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570072154392,"sku":"9780816665709","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-american-dream-in-vietnamese-paperback-softback-9780816665709","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}