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Introduction To Volume Eight: Wins And Losses, Noelle Brada-Williams
Introduction To Volume Eight: Wins And Losses, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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"It's Oil And Water": Race, Gender, Power, And Trauma In Vu Tran's Dragonfish, Quan-Manh Ha, Chase Greenfield
"It's Oil And Water": Race, Gender, Power, And Trauma In Vu Tran's Dragonfish, Quan-Manh Ha, Chase Greenfield
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
ABSTRACT: This article analyzes in-depth the interplay between race, gender, power, and trauma in Vu Tran’s debut novel, Dragonfish. We argue that Dragonfish focuses on the relationships, desires, and conflicts among its three protagonists—Robert, Suzy, and Sonny—to highlight how their postwar interactions complicate race, gender, trauma, and remembrance. The three protagonists engage in an intense socio-political struggle for dominance and control, which is riddled with irony, heart-wrenching pain, and misleading appearances. They experience hardship and loss, but they rely on each other for recovery from past and present trauma, and to advance their own varying personal priorities and agendas: …
On Such A Full Sea Of Novels: An Interview With Chang-Rae Lee, Noelle Brada-Williams
On Such A Full Sea Of Novels: An Interview With Chang-Rae Lee, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
An interview with author Chang-rae Lee.
Introduction To Volume Seven: Confessing Racial Schizophrenia, Noelle Brada-Williams
Introduction To Volume Seven: Confessing Racial Schizophrenia, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
A short meditation on teaching ethnic American literature in 2016, acknowledgments, and a summary of this volume's contents.