American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam

American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam
Author: Philip D. Beidler
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0820330248

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A discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literary consciousness relative to the larger process of cultural myth-making.

Nothing Ever Dies

Nothing Ever Dies
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2016-04-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 067466034X

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Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War—a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations. “[A] gorgeous, multifaceted examination of the war Americans call the Vietnam War—and which Vietnamese call the American War...As a writer, [Nguyen] brings every conceivable gift—wisdom, wit, compassion, curiosity—to the impossible yet crucial work of arriving at what he calls ‘a just memory’ of this war.” —Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times “In Nothing Ever Dies, his unusually thoughtful consideration of war, self-deception and forgiveness, Viet Thanh Nguyen penetrates deeply into memories of the Vietnamese war...[An] important book, which hits hard at self-serving myths.” —Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review “Ultimately, Nguyen’s lucid, arresting, and richly sourced inquiry, in the mode of Susan Sontag and W. G. Sebald, is a call for true and just stories of war and its perpetual legacy.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)

A Companion to American Literature

A Companion to American Literature
Author: Susan Belasco
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1864
Release: 2020-04-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1119653355

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A comprehensive, chronological overview of American literature in three scholarly and authoritative volumes A Companion to American Literature traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the field. Contributors explore a broad range of topics in historical, cultural, political, geographic, and technological contexts, engaging the work of both well-known and non-canonical writers of every period. Volume One is an inclusive and geographically expansive examination of early American literature, applying a range of cultural and historical approaches and theoretical models to a dramatically expanded canon of texts. Volume Two covers American literature between 1820 and 1914, focusing on the development of print culture and the literary marketplace, the emergence of various literary movements, and the impact of social and historical events on writers and writings of the period. Spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries, Volume Three studies traditional areas of American literature as well as the literature from previously marginalized groups and contemporary writers often overlooked by scholars. This inclusive and comprehensive study of American literature: Examines the influences of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and disability on American literature Discusses the role of technology in book production and circulation, the rise of literacy, and changing reading practices and literary forms Explores a wide range of writings in multiple genres, including novels, short stories, dramas, and a variety of poetic forms, as well as autobiographies, essays, lectures, diaries, journals, letters, sermons, histories, and graphic narratives. Provides a thematic index that groups chapters by contexts and illustrates their links across different traditional chronological boundaries A Companion to American Literature is a valuable resource for students coming to the subject for the first time or preparing for field examinations, instructors in American literature courses, and scholars with more specialized interests in specific authors, genres, movements, or periods.

Vietnam in American Literature

Vietnam in American Literature
Author: Philip H. Melling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

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Examines the connections between colonial ideology and contemporary American writing and films concerning the Vietnam experience.

Vietnam War Literature

Vietnam War Literature
Author: John Newman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 698
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

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This third edition is greatly expanded with over 600 new entries to reflect the growing number of imaginative writings about the Vietnam War.

American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam

American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam
Author: Philip D. Beidler
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780820306124

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Beidler seeks to analyze memoirs, novels, experimental works of fiction, plays, poems and oral histories about the Vietnamese conflict in relation to the larger process of cultural mythmaking. He finds that most of them are concerned with the meaning of the conflict for the American culture as a whole.

The American War in Contemporary Vietnam

The American War in Contemporary Vietnam
Author: Christina Schwenkel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2009-07-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0253003318

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Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today -- in official and unofficial histories and in everyday life. Schwenkel analyzes visual representations found in monuments and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, photography and art exhibits, battlefield tours, and related sites of "trauma tourism." In these transnational spaces, American and Vietnamese memories of the war intersect in ways profoundly shaped by global economic liberalization and the return of American citizens as tourists, pilgrims, and philanthropists.

Race & Resistance

Race & Resistance
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195146999

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Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture and politics, and makes his case through the example of literature.

The Refugees

The Refugees
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802189350

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“Beautiful and heartrending” fiction set in Vietnam and America from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker) In these powerful stories, written over a period of twenty years and set in both Vietnam and America, Viet Thanh Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experiences of people leading lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. This incisive collection by the National Book Award finalist and celebrated author of The Committed gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family that accompany relocation. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her with a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of migration. “Terrific.” —Chicago Tribune “An important and incisive book.” —The Washington Post “An urgent, wonderful collection.” —NPR

My Viet

My Viet
Author: Michele Janette
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2011-07-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0824860187

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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.