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1 online resource (xxvii, 250 pages) |
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Project Muse literature collection
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments / Janette, Michele -- Introduction -- A Note on Language -- Part One: Tales of Witness -- Fallen Leaves / Thu-Lâm, Nguyễn Thị -- Shallow Graves / Nga, Tran Thi / Larsen, Wendy Wilder -- Twenty Years and Twenty Days / Kỳ, Nguyễn Cao -- A Thousand Tears Falling / Krall, Yung -- A Vietcong Memoir / Tang, Truong Nhu / Chanoff, David / Toai, Doan Van -- "Electioneering: Vietnamese Style" / Mai, Nguyen Thi Tuyet / Hoanh, Le Van -- No Passenger on the River / Dinh, Tran Van -- Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam / Đôn, Trần Văn -- In the Jaws of History / Điệm, Bùi / Chanoff, David -- When Heaven and Earth Changed Places / Hayslip, Le Ly / Wurtz, Jay -- The Sacred Willow / Elliott, Duong Van Mai -- At Home in America / Vu, Nguyen Van / Pittman, Bob -- South Wind Changing / Huỳnh, Jade Ngọc Quang -- The Unwanted / Nguyen, Kien -- "The Stories They Carried" / Lam, Andrew -- Catfish and Mandala / Pham, Andrew X. -- Part Two: Tales of Imagination -- Beyond the East Wind / Quyen, Duong Van / Coburn, Jewell Reinhart -- The Little Weaver of Thái-Yên Village / Tuyết, Trần Khánh -- The Land I Lost / Nhuong, Huynh Quang -- Miles from Home / McCauley, Anna Kim-Lan -- Monkey Bridge / Cao, Lan -- placing the accents / Tran, Trương -- "Georgia Red Dirt" / Spieldenner, Andrew -- Song of the Cicadas / Lan, Mộng -- In the Mynah Bird's Own Words / Tran, Barbara -- The Book of Salt / Truong, Monique -- "the gangster we are all looking for" -- All Around What Empties Out / Dinh, Linh -- "Visitors" / Phan, Aimee -- Breaking the Map / Lieberman, Kim-An -- Living Dead in Denmark / Nguyen, Qui -- "It Was His Story" / Ho, Khanh -- Permissions |
| Summary |
Twentieth-century America reduced Vietnam to "'Nam": the surreal site of a military nightmare. The early twenty-first century has seen the revision of this image to recognize the people and culture of Vietnam itself. Vietnamese Americans, both immigrants and the American children of immigrants, have participated in changing this perception, consistently presenting their side of the story in memoirs published since the 1960s. My Viet is the first anthology to provide a comprehensive overview of these memoirs and the historical picture they offer and to include Vietnamese writing that goes beyond memoir, revealing a new generation of Vietnamese American poetry, fiction, and drama. The narratives in Part 1, Tales of Witness, treat the major events of the Vietnamese diasapora: Vietnam's resistance to French colonization, the "Vietnam War," post-war Vietnamese life, immigration to and life in America, and reconnections with contemporary Vietnam. Part 2, Tales of Imagination, moves beyond the master narratives of war and immigration to survey exciting innovations in the work of Vietnamese American writers. The texts demonstrate the full flowering of Vietnamese American literature in English and are among the best contemporary writings of any category. My Viet presents a rich, varied, and provocative collection of literary work that explores Vietnam from many Vietnamese points of view, sees America through a specifically Vietnamese American lens, and broadens the scope of Vietnamese American literature to its fullest extent |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| SUBJECT |
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
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American literature -- 21st century
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American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature -- Vietnamese American authors.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Asian -- General.
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American literature.
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American literature -- Vietnamese American authors.
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Literatur
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Vietnamesen
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Literatur.
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Amerikanisches Englisch.
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Vietnam.
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Vietnamesen.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Janette, Michele.
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| LC no. |
2011016141 |
| ISBN |
9780824860189 |
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0824860187 |
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