Yen N Vu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yen N Vu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yen N |
| FAMILY NAME | Vu |
| SIGNATURE | VU Y N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fulbright University Vietnam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Subjects and Sojourners
Đợi Kiều
Đào Lê Na’s Đợi Kiều [Waiting for Kiều] opens with a shadow of a woman dancing against the backdrop of a waning moon while a voice-over sings.1 In this theatrical rendition inspired by Nguyễn Du’s Truyện Kiều [The Tale of Kiều], the character of Kiều remains a mere silhouette, devoid of spoken lines or identifiable features. As implied in the title, she is symbolically akin to Samuel Beckett’s Godot, always referenced but never actually revealed.…
An Ecology of Morality
Exiled writer Dương Thu Hương is one of the most renowned contemporary female writers of Vietnam, famed also for her criticism of the Communist Party. In her works The Zenith (2007) and Paradise of the Blind (1993), translated and published abroad, she uses the recurring themes of excess and deficit to comment on the political deterioration of the state, a tragic reality that began just years after gaining independence from France. The hunger tha…
Phạm Quỳnh, borrowed language, and the ambivalences of colonial discourse
Phạm Quỳnh (1893–1945), twentieth century Vietnamese intellectual and politician, is a contentious figure in Vietnamese colonial history in terms of his collaboration with the French administration. Much of the mixed opinions on his role, though gleaned from his essays and political positions, have not yet been connected to the ambiguities of the colonial reforms concurrent with his budding career. Informed by Homi Bhabha's framework of ‘mimicry’…
Contested Kinship
Tracing various historical and literary iterations of the trope of the prodigal son in the early context of Vietnamese travel abroad, this essay puts into question what it means to feel kinship to one's native culture and land. By focusing on important particularities of Vietnamese life and culture in the first half of the twentieth century, including increased diasporic mobility, a shift from ideographic to alphabetic writing systems, and new cu…
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Phạm Quỳnh, borrowed language, and the ambivalences of colonial discourse
Phạm Quỳnh (1893–1945), twentieth century Vietnamese intellectual and politician, is a contentious figure in Vietnamese colonial history in terms of his collaboration with the French administration. Much of the mixed opinions on his role, though gleaned from his essays and political positions, have not yet been connected to the ambiguities of the colonial reforms concurrent with his budding career. Informed by Homi Bhabha's framework of ‘mimicry’…
Contested Kinship
Tracing various historical and literary iterations of the trope of the prodigal son in the early context of Vietnamese travel abroad, this essay puts into question what it means to feel kinship to one's native culture and land. By focusing on important particularities of Vietnamese life and culture in the first half of the twentieth century, including increased diasporic mobility, a shift from ideographic to alphabetic writing systems, and new cu…
Đợi Kiều
Đào Lê Na’s Đợi Kiều [Waiting for Kiều] opens with a shadow of a woman dancing against the backdrop of a waning moon while a voice-over sings.1 In this theatrical rendition inspired by Nguyễn Du’s Truyện Kiều [The Tale of Kiều], the character of Kiều remains a mere silhouette, devoid of spoken lines or identifiable features. As implied in the title, she is symbolically akin to Samuel Beckett’s Godot, always referenced but never actually revealed.…
An Ecology of Morality
Exiled writer Dương Thu Hương is one of the most renowned contemporary female writers of Vietnam, famed also for her criticism of the Communist Party. In her works The Zenith (2007) and Paradise of the Blind (1993), translated and published abroad, she uses the recurring themes of excess and deficit to comment on the political deterioration of the state, a tragic reality that began just years after gaining independence from France. The hunger tha…
Subjects and Sojourners
Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)