"Fruit of Violence": The Subaltern Refugee and the Intersection of Oppressions in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.
In: Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), 2021-09-01, Heft 56, S. 23-44
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This article examines Ocean Vuong's semi-autobiographical novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by focusing on how the oppressions of race, gender, class, and sexuality overlap for the Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in America. Among many difficulties, many Vietnamese lives are marked by the intergenerational transmission of emotional pain, and it deterred parents from forming a healthy relationship with their offsprings. As a queer, second-generation Vietnamese American writer, Vuong is raised in a toxic household since he is subjected to physical and emotional abuse of his war traumatized mother. On Earth, written in epistolary form, offers a glimpse into the many-layered anxieties, insecurities of Vuong's family and reveals how the legacy of the Vietnam War still pervades their life in all spheres in America. His narrative, "as a line of communication," is a significant step towards liberating the women in his family from the subaltern status. Speaking from the terrain of otherness and rejecting castration by the forces that victimized his mother and grandmother, Vuong also proves that it is possible to transform the resentment he harbors into something fruitful, and anger can be instrumental in reconciliation and healing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Bu makale, Ocean Vuong'un yarı-otobiyografik On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous romanını, Amerika'daki ırk, toplumsal cinsiyet, sınıf ve cinsellik baskılarının Vietnamlı sığınmacılar ve göçmenlerin yaşamlarındaki yansımalarına odaklanarak inceler. Vietnamlı hayatların çoğu duygusal travmaların ya da kolektif keder duygusunun nesiller arasında aktarımıyla şekillenmiş ve bu durum ebeveynlerin çocuklarıyla sağlıklı bir ilişki kurmalarını engellemiştir. Queer kimliğiyle bilinen ikinci nesil Vietnamlı Amerikalı yazar Vuong, savaşın travmatik etkilerinden kurtulamamış annesinin hem fiziksel hem de duygusal şiddetine maruz kaldığı bir evde büyümüştür. Mektup formunda yazılan On Earth, Vuong'un ailesinin çok katmanlı kaygıları ve güvensizliklerini ele alarak Vietnam Savaşı'nın aile bireylerinin Amerika'daki hayatını hala etkilediğini gösterir. Vuong'un "bir iletişim kanalı" olarak kaleme aldığı romanı, ailesindeki kadınları madun konumundan kurtarmak için önemli bir adımdır. Bir öteki olarak, annesi ve anneannesini mağdur eden güçlerin boyunduruğunu reddeden Vuong, kırgınlıkların nihayetinde yararlı deneyimlere dönüşebileceğini ve öfkenin uzlaşma ya da iyileşme aracı olabileceğini kanıtlar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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"Fruit of Violence": The Subaltern Refugee and the Intersection of Oppressions in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Eren, Fatma |
Zeitschrift: | Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), 2021-09-01, Heft 56, S. 23-44 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2021 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1300-6606 (print) |
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