Identity/Representation

(??) "Who Are We?" 1994. West (Sunday section of San Jose Mercury News) December 4: 12-27.

Bedler, Philip 1991. Rewriting America: Vietnam Authors in Their Generation. Altanta: University of Georgia Press.

DuBois, Thomas A. 1993. "Constructions Construed: The Representation of Southeast Asian Refugees in Academic, Popular, and Adolescent Discourse." Amerasia Journal 19:3: (1-26).

"The Southeast Asian of public discourse can be seen as a complex, multivalent trope shared and negotiated between researchers, Americans in general, and Southeast Asians themselves. In this paper, I will explore some of the dominant discursive models of Southeast Asians operative within academic and popular culture: the scholarly and non-scholarly tendencies of viewing recently resettled people from Vietnam, Cambodia/Kampuchea and Laos as refugees, migrants, immigrants, ethnics, and as racial minorities." This paper is based on research done in public schools in Philadelphia.

Hamamato, Darrell Y. 1994. Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of Representation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Kiang, Peter and Jenny Kaplan (?) "Where do we Stand?" Urban Review, 26:2 (95-119).

Ochea, Gloria Megino 1994. "`No Filipinos Allowed: From Stockton 1930 to Washington 1993" Asian American Policy Review, IV, 107-115.

(Gloria Megino Ochea was the democratic nominee for California's 22nd Congressional District).

Strobel, Leny Mendoza. "A Personal Story: On Becoming a Split Filipino Subject. Amerasia Journal 19:3: (117-130).

Tran, TV and TD Nguyen 1994. "Gender and Satisfaction with the Host Society among Indochinese Refugees." International Migration Review. 28:2 (Summer): 323-337.

Biography/Autobiography/Essays

Brainard, Cecelia Manguerra 1991. Philippine Women in America, Essays by Cecelia Manguerra Brainard Quezon City: New Day Publishers.

Chang, Kou and Shiela Pinkel 1993. Kou Chang's Story: The Journal of a Laotian Hmong Refugee. Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press.

Criddle, Joan D. 1992. Bamboo and Butterflies: From Refugee to Citizen. Dixon, California: East/West Bridge Publishing and Distributing.

Hayslip, Le Ly 1993. Child of War, Woman of Peace. (with James Hayslip). New York: Doubleday.

A Memoir of Le Ly's experiences in the US, writing her book When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, working with Oliver Stone, making a lot of money in real estate and other entrepeneurial ventures, then using this money to set up health clinics in Vietnam. Also details intra-ethnic conflicts in the US among Vietnamese, and domestic violence. Buddhist references and beliefs throughout, as well as an incorporation of "local beliefs" in thinking.

Hein, Jeremy 1995. From Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia: A Refugee Experience in the United States. New York: Twayne Publ.

Howard, Katsuyo K. 1990. Passages: An Anthology of the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience. Fresno: Southeast Asian Student Services, California State University.

Isett, Stuart 1994. "Year Zero to 1993: The Story of Sapeoun Siang from the Fields of Cambodia to the Streets of America." RIKSHA, 1:1 (Winter): 28-35.

Larsen, Wanwadee 1989. Confessions of a Mail-Order Bride: American Life through Thai Eyes. Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press.

Discussion of implicit and explicit racism, the author's survival skills while faced with a drug-dependent (and just plain dependent) husband and the author's explorations of bi-cultural inner and outer selves (review from Amerasia by Rahper Thongthiraj).

Knudsen, John Chr. 1990. "Cognitive Models in Life Histories." Anthropological Quarterly 63:3 (July): 122-133.

Case study involving Indochinese refugees.

Tran, Qui-Phiet 1993. "Exile and Home in Contemporary Vietnamese American Feminine Writing." Amerasia Journal 19:3: (71-84).

A discussion of women's writing in Vietnamese, divided into two categories: exile and home. Of the "exile" category, the writer finds Vietnamese women writing about 1) Brutalization and rape of a Vietnamese woman by her American sponsor; 2) Jilted by husband on (her) arrival; 3) Jilted by husband on (his) arrival; 4) Perils of trying to raise a family in the US. Later works show women caught between US gained knowledge of female sexuality and the importance of fulfilling her female destiny and traditional Vietnamese culture that represses impulses and needs.

Nguyen, MT 1995. "Three who Escaped: Experiences of a Refugee Family Following the Fall of South Vietnam." Journal of American History 30:1 (34).

Nguyen, Qui Duc 1994. Where the Ashes Are: The Oddysey of a Vietnamese Family. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishers.

Rolland, Barbara J. and Houa Vue Moua 1994. Trail Through the Mists. Eau Claire, Wisc: Eagles Printing Co.

1963: Leaving Laos to go to a refugee camp im Thailand.

Truong, Monique Thuy-Dung 1993. "The Emergence of Voices: Vietnamese American Literature 1975-1990. Amerasia Journal 19:3: (27-50).

A good companion piece for reading narratives "by" Vietnamese. The writer comments on how anthologies of Southeast Asian narratives often reflect more on the political and social beliefs of the editor and "collaborator" (one who actually writes the narrative from interviews or oral stories) than on the one whose story is being told.

Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia 1991. "Immigrant Autobiography: Some Questions of Definition and Approach. " In American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect, Paul John Akin, ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press (42-170).

Oral Histories

Lee, Joann Faung Jean 1991. Asian American Experience in the US: Oral Histories of First-Fourth Generations of Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

Vang, Lue and Judy Lewis 1984. Grandmother's Path, Grandfather's Way: Hmong Oral Preservation Project: Oral Lore, Generation to Generation. San Fransisco: Zellerbach Family Fund.

(1987) Textiles as Texts: Arts of Hmong Women from Laos.

Scott, Joanna C. 1989. Indochina's Refugees: Oral Histories from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

Interviews from Philippine Refugee Processing Center which houses 17,000 refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, where people undergo "intensive language training and cultural orientation before young firends and family in the US." Many short narratives, some with photos. Can see gender differences by analyzing different content and nature of narratives.

Welaratna, Usha 1993. Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Includes the narratives of Pu Ma, "welfare mother;" Mum, who remembers the disappearance of her father and early childhood under the Khmer Rouge; Niseth, college student; Nya Srey, "a widowed single parent;" Aspara, "a Cambodian wife;" and Kaun Srey "a teenage daughter" and Bopha, an ethnic Vietnamese who lived among Cambodians. The editor briefly introduces the narratives, which are based upon interviews. Also includes a chapter entitled, "Cambodian and American Views of Successful Adjustment."

Fiction (under construction)

Philippine American Women Writers and Artists 1992. Seven Stories from Seven Sisters: A Collection of Philippine Folktales. Santa Monica, CA: Philippine American Writers and Artists.

Authors: Valerie Slaughter Bejarano, Cecelia Manugerra Brainard, Susan Montepio, Fe Panaligan Koons, Cecile Caguingin Ochoa, Nenutzka Veillamar, and Marquita Davison.

Watanabe, Syvlia and Carol Bruchac, eds. Home to Stay: Asian American Women's Fiction. Greenfield Center, NY: The Greenfield Review Press.

Malaysian, Vietnamese, and Filipino as well as Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indian and Pakistani writing.