Yearly Archives: 2012
Asiatische Deutsche – Vietnamesische Diaspora and Beyond [Asian Germans: Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond]
Recently, there’s been a wave of new critical work on Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic literature, culture, and the refugee/immigrant experience. Here is a preview...
101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals Who Changed US History
Another book for the radar, this time written for our youth. The title says it all, including some well-known and not-so-well-known Asian Americans such...
Jade Hidle: On a Vietnamese American suicide, what I want to say is…
How do you say what is in your heart when a stranger dies? What is appropriate when that stranger takes his own life? These...
Top Ten Most Critical of October and of All Time
The Top Ten most read posts of October and of all time on diaCRITICS, for your reading enjoyment. Read your favorites again. Or discover...
Treacherous Subject: Doing Archival Work in Việt Nam
Released in April 2012, Lan P. Duong's Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism reads Vietnamese film and literature through the notion of collaboration and through the...
The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
Recently, there’s been a wave of new critical work on Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic literature, culture, and the refugee/immigrant experience. Here is a preview...
Maika Elan Photographs the Loving Gays of Vietnam
A freelance photographer born in 1986 in Hanoi, Maika Elan (aka Nguyen Thanh Hai) has produced a series of intimate and compelling photographs of...
Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora
Recently, there’s been a wave of new critical work on Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic literature, culture, and the refugee/immigrant experience. Here is a preview...
Congratulations to Photographer An-My Lê for Winning a MacArthur “Genius” Award
Born in 1960 in Việt Nam and emigrated to the United States in 1975, An-My Lê is a photographer whose work plucks at the...
BAO PHI & LITERATURE CIRCLE This weekend in Orange County!
Diacritics' very own Viet Nguyen is moderating for a transformArt Literature Circle of writers which includes Lan Duong, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, and Caroline Kieu-Linh Valverde. After the...