My Viet: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present 9780824860189
Twentieth-century America reduced Vietnam to “’Nam”: the surreal site of a military nightmare. The early twenty-first ce
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English Pages 282 [280] Year 2011
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on Language
Part One: Tales of Witness
Fallen Leaves
Shallow Graves
Twenty Years and Twenty Days
A Thousand Tears Falling
A Vietcong Memoir
“Electioneering: Vietnamese Style”
No Passenger on the River
Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam
In the Jaws of History
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
The Sacred Willow
At Home in America
South Wind Changing
The Unwanted
“The Stories They Carried”
Catfish and Mandala
Part Two: Tales of Imagination
Beyond the East Wind
The Little Weaver of Thái-Yên Village
The Land I Lost
Miles from Home
Monkey Bridge
placing the accents
“Georgia Red Dirt”
Song of the Cicadas
In the Mynah Bird’s Own Words
The Book of Salt
“the gangster we are all looking for”
All Around What Empties Out
“Visitors”
Breaking the Map
Living Dead in Denmark
“It Was His Story”
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