Queering the Vietnam Trauma Narrative in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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 narrat...

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Main Author: María Abizanda-Cardona
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Valladolid 2024-10-01
Series:ES Review
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Online Access:https://157.88.20.48/index.php/esreview/article/view/7907