This solo performance text visits an experience of a Vietnamese American woman reclaiming voice. The text situates itself in the racial and ethnic dis course on identity, particularly assumptions on sexual and feminine iden tity. The text brings the Vietnamese American female body to a site for criti cal examination of these discourses.
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