TY - JOUR
T1 - Portrait of a Lost Paradise
T2 - Diasporic Delusions in Linda Lê's Héroïnes
AU - Barnes, Leslie
AU - Kearney, Beth
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - This article examines Lê's deployment of photography, performance, and writing as media through which the Vietnamese overseas preserve, contest, and transmit the past in the present. Lê's novel as kaleidoscope reflects the multilayered heterogeneity of the diaspora through the lens of its second generation, who are ambivalent agents of cultural memory, unable or unwilling to grapple with these shifting fragments of the past. The image of Saigon, April 30, 1975 is fragile with their children. And just as the Saigon left behind exists no more, the image of this lost Saigon, Lê's novel suggests, will one day also be lost.
AB - This article examines Lê's deployment of photography, performance, and writing as media through which the Vietnamese overseas preserve, contest, and transmit the past in the present. Lê's novel as kaleidoscope reflects the multilayered heterogeneity of the diaspora through the lens of its second generation, who are ambivalent agents of cultural memory, unable or unwilling to grapple with these shifting fragments of the past. The image of Saigon, April 30, 1975 is fragile with their children. And just as the Saigon left behind exists no more, the image of this lost Saigon, Lê's novel suggests, will one day also be lost.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85186429809&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/esp.2023.a919693
DO - 10.1353/esp.2023.a919693
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85186429809
SN - 0014-0767
VL - 63
SP - 112
EP - 124
JO - Esprit Createur
JF - Esprit Createur
IS - 4
ER -