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The American Dream in Vietnamese /

In 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 refugee...

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Autor principal: Lieu, Nhi T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction : private desires on public display -- Assimilation and ambivalence : legacies of U.S. military intervention -- Vietnamese by other means : the overlapping diasporas of Little Saigon -- Pageantry and nostalgia : beauty contests and the gendered homeland -- Consuming transcendent media : videos, variety shows, and the new middle class -- Conclusion : transnational flows between the diaspora and the homeland. 
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