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dc.contributor.advisorTucker, Sherrie
dc.contributor.authorCao, Thanh Hai Le
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-05T15:30:38Z
dc.date.available2014-02-05T15:30:38Z
dc.date.issued2013-12-31
dc.date.submitted2013
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13073
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/12937
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is a study on the identity construction process of members of the 1.5 generation of Vietnamese Americans by examining their personal narratives. With a focus on strategies used by informants when crafting their narratives instead of looking at narratives as evidence of experience, this project has significant contribution to migration studies, transnational studies, and Asian American Studies because it provides a different approach to narratives and narrative analysis in studying identity and identity formation. The findings show that to members of the 1.5 generation narratives serve as sites where they can make sense of their disrupted and chaotic life, and where they highlight their struggles to survive in a new homeland with a haunting past. Narrative is a process of identity formation. To members of the 1.5 generation, it is an especially important site for making sense of disrupted and chaotic lives, in order to survive in a new homeland with a haunting past.
dc.format.extent192 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
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dc.subjectAmerican studies
dc.subjectAsian American studies
dc.subject1.5 generation
dc.subjectDiaspora
dc.subjectIdentity construction
dc.subjectNarrative
dc.subjectStrategies
dc.subjectVietnamese Americans
dc.titleCRAFTING A NEW SELF IN DIASPORA: A STUDY OF THE 1.5 GENERATION OF VIETNAMESE AMERICANS
dc.typeDissertation
dc.contributor.cmtememberDavidman, Lynn
dc.contributor.cmtememberChappell, Ben
dc.contributor.cmtememberNgo, Fiona
dc.contributor.cmtememberCaminero-Santangelo, Marta
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineAmerican Studies
dc.thesis.degreeLevelPh.D.
kusw.oastatusna
kusw.oapolicyThis item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria.
kusw.bibid8086405
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