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Thang
Dao FP '06 receives the 2006 John Lax Prize
May
2006
In Violent Dream: Vietnamese
American Women and Violence, Thang Dao
provides a rereading of Vietnamese American literary and filmic texts that
are usually interpreted as coming of age immigrant narratives and reduced
to the simplistic trope of “culture
clash.” Instead, Thang reinterprets these
texts through the lens of gender, generation, and class, focusing on articulations
of violence in the lives of Vietnamese women at home (in the form of domestic
abuse) and in the work place (in the form of labor exploitation). She argues
that these articulations of violence stem from shifts in gender roles and
relations brought about by the displacement of Vietnamese refugees. Thang
tracks the way the Vietnamese women in these texts negotiate with violence,
showing that the strategies they deploy are both complicit and disruptive
of patriarchy.
The prize was awarded by Antonio Tiongson, thesis director, and Simone
Weil Davis, acting chair of American Studies, during the May 2006 At-Home.
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