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"Noir and the Refugee Experience"
University of Chicago Humanities Day
October 15, 2016
Vu Tran, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Committee on Creative Writing
Vu Tran’s 2015 literary crime novel, Dragonfish, tells the story of a white American police officer searching for his Vietnamese ex-wife in the gambling dens of Las Vegas and amid the Vietnamese-American gangsters who’ve brought him there. Tran will read from Dragonfish and discuss how he used the conventions of noir fiction to tell a deeper story about the refugee experience and the shadow it casts over the lives of the Vietnamese-Americans in his novel.
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"Noir and the Refugee Experience"
University of Chicago Humanities Day
October 15, 2016
Vu Tran, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Committee on Creative Writing
Vu Tran’s 2015 literary crime novel, Dragonfish, tells the story of a white American police officer searching for his Vietnamese ex-wife in the gambling dens of Las Vegas and amid the Vietnamese-American gangsters who’ve brought him there. Tran will read from Dragonfish and discuss how he used the conventions of noir fiction to tell a deeper story about the refugee experience and the shadow it casts over the lives of the Vietnamese-Americans in his novel.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to humanities@uchicago.edu.
