Việt Lê

Biographic Data

ID209461
NAMEViệt Lê
GIVEN NAMESViệt
FAMILY NAMELê
SIGNATURELÊ V
AFFILIATIONSViet Le is an artist, creative writer and curator. He received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Thương

    Việt Lê, Viet Bac Le et al.ARTICLEAmerasia Journal2021

  • Stormy Winds and Southern Comfort(s)

    Việt Lê, Lan DuongARTICLEVisual Anthropology2018References: 3

    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…

  • Towards an Aesthetic of Excess

    Laura Kina, Việt Lê et al.ARTICLEAsian Diasporic Visual Cultures…2016

  • Refugee Crossings on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Vietnam War

    Y-Dang Troeung, Y‐dang Troeung et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2016References: 1

    Andrew Lam’s Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora (2005), East East West: Writing in Two Hemispheres (2010), and Birds of Paradise Lost: Stories (2013) reflect the heterogeneous and ideologically scattered quality of Vietnamese American identities and identifications. Born in Saigon in 1964 to a father who served as a general in the South Vietnamese Army and a mother from a rural village in north Vietnam, Lam grew up with the co…

  • What Remains

    Open AccessViệt Lê, Viet Tho LeARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2014Cited by: 2References: 4

    This essay examines two documentaries- S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (dir. Rithy Panh, 2003) and Refugee (dir. Spencer Nakasako and Mike Siv, 2003)-featuring Cambodian and Cambodian American subjects whose subjectivity is centered squarely within the frame. Scenes of return and confrontation-between victims and perpetrators ( S-21 ), between a son and his long-lost father ( Refugee )-are unique to these films and are the essay's main focu…

  • Pop Tarts (Photographic Portfolio)

    Việt Lê, Viet Bac LeARTICLEpositions asia critique2012

    In contemporary Viet Nam, China, and Korea (among other Asian countries), popular cultural production has opened up new modes of transnational subjectivity, questioning the boundaries of community, identity, and identification. How are national and consumer desires linked? Boy bands such as Fahrenheit and Super Junior and male pop stars such as Jay Chou, Lam Truong, and Wang Lee Hom have cultivated international followings of screaming fans. The …

  • The Art of War

    Việt LêARTICLEAmerasia Journal2005Cited by: 1References: 4

    This essay first touches upon broad themes and concerns shaped by the multi-generational artists' work, including memory and forgetting. Then, the essay examines individual artists and specific works. The essay concludes with a brief discussion of identity politics in relation to the artists' practice. The artists' work raises a number of questions: In what ways does their work question ethnic, sexual, and national identity? Will the legacy of th…

  • I Sleep in Your Old Bed

    Việt LêARTICLEAmerasia Journal2003