Abstract
Feminist Collaborations: In Conversation with Lan Duong
Highlights
In academia, Lan Duong is mainly known as a feminist scholar of diasporic Vietnamese literature, art, and cinema
Fiona Lee (FL): I assume that your creative activities inform your scholarship in some way and vice versa
Could you tell us about the different kinds of work that you do and how you came to do all these things? Lan Duong (LD): My first book, Treacherous Subjects, put forth a gender and sexual analytic—what I called “trans-Vietnamese feminism”—for analysing 20th-century Vietnamese film and literature
Summary
Lan Duong is mainly known as a feminist scholar of diasporic Vietnamese literature, art, and cinema. In this wide-ranging conversation, we speak to her about the relationship between writing poetry and academic scholarship, how her family’s refugee journey from Saigon to Pennsylvania to Southern California and her subsequent visits to Vietnam shape her creative and critical work, what it means to both theorise and practise collaboration, collective organising in the Trump era, and the importance of situating refugee narratives within broader histories of imperialism and settler colonialism.
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