Recent publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Do, Tess. “Exile: Rupture and Continuity in Jean Vanmai's Chan Dang and Fils de Chan Dang” in Exiles Cultures, Misplaced Identities, ed. Paul Allatson and Jo McCormack, Rodopi, 2008: 151-172.
A shorter version of this book chapter was published on line in Portal (e-Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies), July-August 2005. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal/article/view/113

Do, Tess and Tarr, Carrie. "Aspects of Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City in L’Amant/The Lover (1992), Xich lo/Cyclo (1995), Chung Cu/Collective Flat (1999) and Gai Nhay/Bar Girls (2003)", Special Issue on Cinematic Representation of The Tropical Urban/City, ed. Chua Beng Huat, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Volume 29, Number 1, March 2008: 55-67.

Lay-Chenchabi, Kathryn and Tess Do. “Guilt and Betrayal in the Works of Azoug Begag and Linda Lê”, French Cultural Studies, February 2008: 39-56.

Do, Tess. "Bargirls and Street Cinderella: women, sex and prostitution in Le Hoang's commercial films", Asian Studies Review, Vol. 30, Special Issue, June 2006: 175-188.
This article was translated into French and published in Le cinema vietnamien / Vietnamese Cinema, ed Jean-Pierre Gimenez, Asiexpo Edition, 2007

Do, Tess. "From Incest to Exile: Linda Lê and the Incestuous Vietnamese Immigrants" in Indochina, India and France: Cultural Representations, ed. Jennifer Yee and Kathryn Robson, Lexington Books, 2005: 165-177.

Do, Tess. "The Vietnamese Cooking Legacy: A Cultural and Post-colonial Exploration of Food Metaphors in Linda Lê's Les Trois Parques", in Essays in Modern Italian & French Literature, Special Number “In Recollection of Tom O’ Neill”, ed. Alaistair Hurst & Tony Pagliaro, Spurti e Ricerche, 2004: 40-49.

Do, Tess. "Entre salut et damnation: une exploration de l'héritage post-colonial des exilés vietnamiens à travers les métaphors de la nourriture chez Linda Lê" French Cultural Studies, July 2004: 142-157.

Do, Tess. "Nourriture ou pourriture: une exploration de l'impact post-colonial du patrimoine français parmi les immigrants vietnamiens dans les romans de Linda Lê" in Food and Lifestyles in Oceania, Actes du Colloque CORAIL 2002, ed. Sonia Lacabanne, Noumea, 2003: 141-155.

Do, Tess. "Confesseur et pécheresse: conversion et subversion dans Léon Morin, prêtre": Women In French, 2002: 79-91.

Do, Tess. "Qui a créé la créatrice? De la création du texte de femme à la création du meilleur livre de l’année," Repenser les processus créateurs/Rethinking Creative Process, ed. Françoise Grauby, Michelle Royer, Peter Lang SA, 2001: 133-147.

Work in progress

Voices beyond the grave: karma and the female ghosts in Victor Vu's Spirits

"Order and disorder in Indochine and Pepe le Moko" (in collaboration with Dr Kathryn Lay-Chenchabi)

“Exploring Linda Lê’s Homeland: Myth, Return and (Re)construction”.

Research projects