Southern Memory, Southern Metaphor: Representing South Vietnam through the US South

IF 0.5 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1353/aq.2022.0039
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
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Abstract:This essay takes the juxtaposition of South Vietnamese and Confederate flags at the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot as a point of departure for thinking through southern metaphors and southern memories connecting South Vietnam and the US South. It analyzes cultural productions by 1.5 generation South Vietnamese refugees—Andrew Lam's short story "Show and Tell" and An-My Lê's photographic series Silent General—to trace the ways in which South Vietnam has been represented through the iconography and vernacular of the US South. What links South Vietnam and the US South is a distinct articulation of southern memory and memorialization, forged in the wake of southern civil war defeat. Southern memory, however, is always already contested, manifesting in the US context either as Lost Cause mythology or as Black abolitionist remembrance. Southern memory and southern metaphor thus open up space for contingencies and interventions, to route South Vietnamese diasporic politics through Black freedom struggles instead of Confederate nostalgia. Overall, this essay interrogates what critiques of empire and white supremacy are enabled by juxtaposing South Vietnam and the US South: two seemingly conservative southern spaces that do not easily cohere to the anti-imperialist, Third World Liberationist politics typically associated with the "Global South."
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南方记忆,南方隐喻:通过美国南方代表南越
摘要:本文以2021年1月6日国会暴动中南越和邦联旗帜的并列为出发点,思考连接南越和美国南方的南方隐喻和南方记忆。它分析了1.5代南越难民的文化作品——安德鲁·林(andrew Lam)的短篇小说《展示与讲述》(Show and Tell)和安米Lê的摄影系列《沉默的将军》(Silent general)——以追踪南越通过美国南方的图像学和方言表现出来的方式。连接南越和美国南部的是一种独特的南方记忆和纪念,这是在南方内战失败后形成的。然而,南方的记忆总是有争议的,在美国的背景下,要么表现为失败的神话,要么表现为黑人废奴主义者的记忆。因此,南方记忆和南方隐喻为偶发事件和干预开辟了空间,通过黑人自由斗争而不是邦联怀旧来引导南越流散政治。总的来说,这篇文章通过将南越和美国南方并列来探讨对帝国和白人至上主义的批评是什么:这两个看似保守的南方空间不容易与反帝国主义、第三世界解放主义政治联系在一起,这些政治通常与“全球南方”有关。
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期刊介绍: American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American Studies. The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts. This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture. Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American Studies.
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