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T1 Queering the Vietnam Trauma Narrative in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
A1 Abizanda-Cardona, María
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB Veteran memoirs, imbued with white, masculinist bias, dominate US perceptions of the Vietnam War. Drawing from an intersectional approach to trauma studies, this article examines Ocean Vuong’s novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2019) as a rewriting of the paradigmatic Vietnam trauma narrative. Vuong challenges normative understandings of traumatic events by shedding light on the effects of the war upon female civilians and their descendants, as well as on the traumatogenic aftermath of all-American masculinist violence for its queer, Asian American protagonist. Vuong also calls for an alternative model to working through trauma based on empathy and relationality.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73460
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73460
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No. 45 (2024) pags. 217-240
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-ene-2025