Lan Duong
Biographic Data
| ID | 113694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lan Duong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lan |
| FAMILY NAME | Duong |
| SIGNATURE | DUONG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Departures
Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples o…
Archives of Memory
Vietnamese American filmmaking must be seen in the context of a community's diasporic formations. As such, it maps out a politics of representation that encapsulates the issues of community and history that invariably striate the ways in which Vietnamese American films and videos have been produced, distributed, received, and archived. This article focuses on the role of the Viet Film Fest, in Orange Country, California, as a major site for the a…
Feminist Refugee Epistemology
Applying a transnational feminist lens to refugee studies, we introduce the concept of feminist refugee epistemology, which posits that gendered displacement is not only about social disorder and interruption but also about social reproduction and innovation. Fusing the critical with the creative, we conceptualize refugee artwork as a critical practice that allows for new forms of knowledge that would otherwise not be produced or shared. In this …
Stormy Winds and Southern Comfort(s)
How do we see Southeast Asian and diasporic visual culture today? This is the central question we ask in the Introduction to this special issue of Visual Anthropology. To answer the question, we trouble the geographic designation of “Southeast Asia” and how the region’s arts and culture have traveled and are received at the present moment. We posit that we need to see Southeast Asia and its diasporas differently. Most notably, we argue that throu…
Culver Center of the Arts, written by Queer Sites and Sounds
Diasporic Returns and the Making of Vietnamese American Ghost Films in Vietnam
This article tracks the ways in which Vietnamese diasporic narratives of return are shadowed by history and capital and how the figure of the Vietnamese refugee is critical to the reimagining of Vietnam in terms of culture. In particular, it focuses on Vietnamese American ghost films made in Vietnam. Often produced collaboratively and transnationally, these films are framed by a haunting of history because they incorporate the work and finances o…
Close up
This article looks at two contemporary films by Vietnamese women. In Việt Linh's Travelling Circus (1988) and Phạm Nhuệ Giang's The Deserted Valley (2002), a female gaze is sutured to that of an ethnic minority character's, a form of looking that stresses a shared oppression between women and the ethnic Other. While clearing a space for a desiring female gaze in Vietnamese film, they nonetheless extend an Orientalist view of racialised difference…
Gender, affect, and landscape
Examining two Vietnamese films, one made in the North in 1959, and another produced in the South during the American War in 1971, this article contends that Vietnam's landscape serves as an affective site for a gendered construction of nationalism within key moments in Vietnamese history. In analyzing the attachments that the Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora feel towards their country, I explore a topic rarely discussed in US film scholarship a…
Vietnamese American Art and Community Politics
Vietnamese American Art and Community PoliticsAn Engaged Feminist Perspective Lan Duong and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud What is our ethical responsibility to our own ethnic community? This is the question we posed ourselves when we became embroiled in political controversies concerning Vietnamese Americans, anticommunism, and the arts. Lan Duong was a co-curator for a 2009 art exhibit called F.O.B. II: Art Speaks [Nghệ Thuật Lên Tiếng] in Santa Ana, Cal…
Child, We Apologize to You
Cha Me, Xin Loi Con [Child, we apologize to you]. Phan Huyen Thu, director. Hanoi: Department of Cinema, Vietnam National Documentary and Scientific Film Studio. DVD, NTSC, 37 mins., 2007; in Vietn
Manufacturing Authenticity
Looking at Tony Bui's feature film, Three Seasons, I argue there is a desire to re-imagine and apprehend pre-capitalist Viet Nam that is endemic not only for Western tourists in the twentieth century, but for Vietnamese diasporic subjects as well - an experience often reconstituted through the camera apparatus for overseas audiences
Desire and Design
For Vietnamese Americans karaoke bar/cafe is a site and cultural practice that powerfully articulates ethnic identity, gender, class and (hetero)sexuality. My essay is an ethnography of such sites located in San Jose, California. The setting of San Jose as power center of Vietnamese communities in U.S. is key because of relationship of labor that Vietnamese Americans have with microchip As one newspaper article put it, the growth of Vietnamese Am…
June 23, 1995, San Francisco Airport
Feminist Refugee Epistemology
Applying a transnational feminist lens to refugee studies, we introduce the concept of feminist refugee epistemology, which posits that gendered displacement is not only about social disorder and interruption but also about social reproduction and innovation. Fusing the critical with the creative, we conceptualize refugee artwork as a critical practice that allows for new forms of knowledge that would otherwise not be produced or shared. In this …
Gender, affect, and landscape
Examining two Vietnamese films, one made in the North in 1959, and another produced in the South during the American War in 1971, this article contends that Vietnam's landscape serves as an affective site for a gendered construction of nationalism within key moments in Vietnamese history. In analyzing the attachments that the Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora feel towards their country, I explore a topic rarely discussed in US film scholarship a…
Vietnamese American Art and Community Politics
Vietnamese American Art and Community PoliticsAn Engaged Feminist Perspective Lan Duong and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud What is our ethical responsibility to our own ethnic community? This is the question we posed ourselves when we became embroiled in political controversies concerning Vietnamese Americans, anticommunism, and the arts. Lan Duong was a co-curator for a 2009 art exhibit called F.O.B. II: Art Speaks [Nghệ Thuật Lên Tiếng] in Santa Ana, Cal…
Diasporic Returns and the Making of Vietnamese American Ghost Films in Vietnam
This article tracks the ways in which Vietnamese diasporic narratives of return are shadowed by history and capital and how the figure of the Vietnamese refugee is critical to the reimagining of Vietnam in terms of culture. In particular, it focuses on Vietnamese American ghost films made in Vietnam. Often produced collaboratively and transnationally, these films are framed by a haunting of history because they incorporate the work and finances o…
Close up
This article looks at two contemporary films by Vietnamese women. In Việt Linh's Travelling Circus (1988) and Phạm Nhuệ Giang's The Deserted Valley (2002), a female gaze is sutured to that of an ethnic minority character's, a form of looking that stresses a shared oppression between women and the ethnic Other. While clearing a space for a desiring female gaze in Vietnamese film, they nonetheless extend an Orientalist view of racialised difference…
June 23, 1995, San Francisco Airport
Desire and Design
For Vietnamese Americans karaoke bar/cafe is a site and cultural practice that powerfully articulates ethnic identity, gender, class and (hetero)sexuality. My essay is an ethnography of such sites located in San Jose, California. The setting of San Jose as power center of Vietnamese communities in U.S. is key because of relationship of labor that Vietnamese Americans have with microchip As one newspaper article put it, the growth of Vietnamese Am…
Manufacturing Authenticity
Looking at Tony Bui's feature film, Three Seasons, I argue there is a desire to re-imagine and apprehend pre-capitalist Viet Nam that is endemic not only for Western tourists in the twentieth century, but for Vietnamese diasporic subjects as well - an experience often reconstituted through the camera apparatus for overseas audiences
Child, We Apologize to You
Cha Me, Xin Loi Con [Child, we apologize to you]. Phan Huyen Thu, director. Hanoi: Department of Cinema, Vietnam National Documentary and Scientific Film Studio. DVD, NTSC, 37 mins., 2007; in Vietn
Vietnamese American Art and Community Politics
Vietnamese American Art and Community PoliticsAn Engaged Feminist Perspective Lan Duong and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud What is our ethical responsibility to our own ethnic community? This is the question we posed ourselves when we became embroiled in political controversies concerning Vietnamese Americans, anticommunism, and the arts. Lan Duong was a co-curator for a 2009 art exhibit called F.O.B. II: Art Speaks [Nghệ Thuật Lên Tiếng] in Santa Ana, Cal…
Gender, affect, and landscape
Examining two Vietnamese films, one made in the North in 1959, and another produced in the South during the American War in 1971, this article contends that Vietnam's landscape serves as an affective site for a gendered construction of nationalism within key moments in Vietnamese history. In analyzing the attachments that the Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora feel towards their country, I explore a topic rarely discussed in US film scholarship a…
Close up
This article looks at two contemporary films by Vietnamese women. In Việt Linh's Travelling Circus (1988) and Phạm Nhuệ Giang's The Deserted Valley (2002), a female gaze is sutured to that of an ethnic minority character's, a form of looking that stresses a shared oppression between women and the ethnic Other. While clearing a space for a desiring female gaze in Vietnamese film, they nonetheless extend an Orientalist view of racialised difference…
Culver Center of the Arts, written by Queer Sites and Sounds
Diasporic Returns and the Making of Vietnamese American Ghost Films in Vietnam
This article tracks the ways in which Vietnamese diasporic narratives of return are shadowed by history and capital and how the figure of the Vietnamese refugee is critical to the reimagining of Vietnam in terms of culture. In particular, it focuses on Vietnamese American ghost films made in Vietnam. Often produced collaboratively and transnationally, these films are framed by a haunting of history because they incorporate the work and finances o…
Feminist Refugee Epistemology
Applying a transnational feminist lens to refugee studies, we introduce the concept of feminist refugee epistemology, which posits that gendered displacement is not only about social disorder and interruption but also about social reproduction and innovation. Fusing the critical with the creative, we conceptualize refugee artwork as a critical practice that allows for new forms of knowledge that would otherwise not be produced or shared. In this …
Stormy Winds and Southern Comfort(s)
How do we see Southeast Asian and diasporic visual culture today? This is the central question we ask in the Introduction to this special issue of Visual Anthropology. To answer the question, we trouble the geographic designation of “Southeast Asia” and how the region’s arts and culture have traveled and are received at the present moment. We posit that we need to see Southeast Asia and its diasporas differently. Most notably, we argue that throu…
Archives of Memory
Vietnamese American filmmaking must be seen in the context of a community's diasporic formations. As such, it maps out a politics of representation that encapsulates the issues of community and history that invariably striate the ways in which Vietnamese American films and videos have been produced, distributed, received, and archived. This article focuses on the role of the Viet Film Fest, in Orange Country, California, as a major site for the a…
Departures
Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples o…
Sociology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Vietnamese (7 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Media studies (5 works)