Michele Janette
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Janette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Janette |
| SIGNATURE | JANETTE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
America’s Vietnam: The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and Empire. Marguerite Nguyen
Teaching Vietnamese Vietnam War Stories in the Land of the “Big Red One”
Beginning from an understanding of the American Midwest as the “heartland of Empire,” this article offers a pedagogical case study of teaching two Vietnamese narratives about the Vietnam War—Lê Minh Khuê's 1968 short story “Distant Stars” and Dương Thu Hương's 1991 Novel without a Name—in a predominantly white, pro-military, Midwestern context. Theoretically framed by Viet Thanh Nguyen's explorations of a “just” memory and David Palumbo-Liu's inv…
My Viet: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present
Twentieth-century America reduced Vietnam to “’Nam”: the surreal site of a military nightmare. The early twenty-first century has seen the revision of this image to recognize the people and culture of Vietnam itself. Vietnamese Americans, both immigrants and the American children of immigrants, have participated in changing this perception, consistently presenting their side of the story in memoirs published since the 1960s. My Viet is the first …
Alternative Historical Tetherings: Wilbur Wright, George Moses Horton, and Virginia Dare in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth
This article argues that, in her second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, Monique Truong writes against the militaristic and traumatic overdeterminations of the Vietnam War faced by Vietnamese American writers. Offering an analysis of Truong’s incorporation and revision of three historical figures, Wilbur Wright, George Moses Horton, and Virginia Dare, from her source text North Carolina Parade, I argue that Truong tethers her narrative to migratory an…
Distorting Overlaps: Identity as Palimpsest in Bitter in the Mouth
Monique Truong’s novel Bitter in the Mouth (2010) palimpsestically constructs its protagonist and narrator with layered secrets (regarding synesthesia, rape, and race). This article analyzes the novel’s palimpsestic structures and offers the palimpsest itself as a useful framework for analyzing the complexities of identity construction. As an interpretive tool, the palimpsest asks us to see distinction and interaction simultaneously: to see indiv…
Look Again: Three Seasons Refocuses American Sights of Vietnam
This article argues that Tony Bui's film Three Seasons is a significant yet often overlooked participant in the alteration of the American discourse on Vietnam. Focusing on the alternative that Three Seasons offers to mainstream Hollywood depictions of Vietnam, Janette argues that Bui dismantles stock character types and stale imaginative paradigms, encouraging instead critical self-reflection about the power and politics of looking
Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1963–1994
Fortunately, it now goes without saying that in order to understand America's involvement with Viet Nam, and/or Vietnamese American culture, it is crucial that we listen to Vietnamese and Vietnamese American voices themselves. However, in practice, many who teach and research in this field have found obstacles to working with Vietnamese American literature, not least of which is the simple lack of knowledge about what is available. Since 1963, ov…
Distorting Overlaps: Identity as Palimpsest in Bitter in the Mouth
Monique Truong’s novel Bitter in the Mouth (2010) palimpsestically constructs its protagonist and narrator with layered secrets (regarding synesthesia, rape, and race). This article analyzes the novel’s palimpsestic structures and offers the palimpsest itself as a useful framework for analyzing the complexities of identity construction. As an interpretive tool, the palimpsest asks us to see distinction and interaction simultaneously: to see indiv…
Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1963–1994
Fortunately, it now goes without saying that in order to understand America's involvement with Viet Nam, and/or Vietnamese American culture, it is crucial that we listen to Vietnamese and Vietnamese American voices themselves. However, in practice, many who teach and research in this field have found obstacles to working with Vietnamese American literature, not least of which is the simple lack of knowledge about what is available. Since 1963, ov…
Look Again: Three Seasons Refocuses American Sights of Vietnam
This article argues that Tony Bui's film Three Seasons is a significant yet often overlooked participant in the alteration of the American discourse on Vietnam. Focusing on the alternative that Three Seasons offers to mainstream Hollywood depictions of Vietnam, Janette argues that Bui dismantles stock character types and stale imaginative paradigms, encouraging instead critical self-reflection about the power and politics of looking
Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1963–1994
Fortunately, it now goes without saying that in order to understand America's involvement with Viet Nam, and/or Vietnamese American culture, it is crucial that we listen to Vietnamese and Vietnamese American voices themselves. However, in practice, many who teach and research in this field have found obstacles to working with Vietnamese American literature, not least of which is the simple lack of knowledge about what is available. Since 1963, ov…
Look Again: Three Seasons Refocuses American Sights of Vietnam
This article argues that Tony Bui's film Three Seasons is a significant yet often overlooked participant in the alteration of the American discourse on Vietnam. Focusing on the alternative that Three Seasons offers to mainstream Hollywood depictions of Vietnam, Janette argues that Bui dismantles stock character types and stale imaginative paradigms, encouraging instead critical self-reflection about the power and politics of looking
Distorting Overlaps: Identity as Palimpsest in Bitter in the Mouth
Monique Truong’s novel Bitter in the Mouth (2010) palimpsestically constructs its protagonist and narrator with layered secrets (regarding synesthesia, rape, and race). This article analyzes the novel’s palimpsestic structures and offers the palimpsest itself as a useful framework for analyzing the complexities of identity construction. As an interpretive tool, the palimpsest asks us to see distinction and interaction simultaneously: to see indiv…
Alternative Historical Tetherings: Wilbur Wright, George Moses Horton, and Virginia Dare in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth
This article argues that, in her second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, Monique Truong writes against the militaristic and traumatic overdeterminations of the Vietnam War faced by Vietnamese American writers. Offering an analysis of Truong’s incorporation and revision of three historical figures, Wilbur Wright, George Moses Horton, and Virginia Dare, from her source text North Carolina Parade, I argue that Truong tethers her narrative to migratory an…
My Viet: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present
Twentieth-century America reduced Vietnam to “’Nam”: the surreal site of a military nightmare. The early twenty-first century has seen the revision of this image to recognize the people and culture of Vietnam itself. Vietnamese Americans, both immigrants and the American children of immigrants, have participated in changing this perception, consistently presenting their side of the story in memoirs published since the 1960s. My Viet is the first …
Teaching Vietnamese Vietnam War Stories in the Land of the “Big Red One”
Beginning from an understanding of the American Midwest as the “heartland of Empire,” this article offers a pedagogical case study of teaching two Vietnamese narratives about the Vietnam War—Lê Minh Khuê's 1968 short story “Distant Stars” and Dương Thu Hương's 1991 Novel without a Name—in a predominantly white, pro-military, Midwestern context. Theoretically framed by Viet Thanh Nguyen's explorations of a “just” memory and David Palumbo-Liu's inv…
America’s Vietnam: The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and Empire. Marguerite Nguyen
History (6 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)