My Viet: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2011

My Viet

Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present

Edited by: Michele Janette

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860189

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Michele Janette Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
A Note on Language Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
Part One: Tales of Witness
Fallen Leaves Nguyễn Thị Thu-Lâm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Shallow Graves Tran Thi Nga and Wendy Wilder Larsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Twenty Years and Twenty Days Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
A Thousand Tears Falling Yung Krall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
A Vietcong Memoir Truong Nhu Tang, David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
“Electioneering: Vietnamese Style” Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai and Le Van Hoanh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
No Passenger on the River Tran Van Dinh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam Trần Văn Đôn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
In the Jaws of History Bùi Điệm and David Chanoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places Le Ly Hayslip and Jay Wurtz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
The Sacred Willow Duong Van Mai Elliott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
At Home in America Nguyen Van Vu and Bob Pittman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
South Wind Changing Jade Ngọc Quang Huỳnh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
The Unwanted Kien Nguyen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
“The Stories They Carried” Andrew Lam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Catfish and Mandala Andrew X. Pham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Part Two: Tales of Imagination
Beyond the East Wind Duong Van Quyen and Jewell Reinhart Coburn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
The Little Weaver of Thái-Yên Village Trần Khánh Tuyết Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
The Land I Lost Huynh Quang Nhuong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Miles from Home Anna Kim-Lan McCauley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Monkey Bridge Lan Cao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
placing the accents Trương Tran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
“Georgia Red Dirt” Andrew Spieldenner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Song of the Cicadas Mộng Lan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
In the Mynah Bird’s Own Words Barbara Tran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
The Book of Salt Monique Truong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
“the gangster we are all looking for” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
All Around What Empties Out Linh Dinh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
“Visitors” Aimee Phan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Breaking the Map Kim-An Lieberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Living Dead in Denmark Qui Nguyen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
“It Was His Story” Khanh Ho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 282

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Published: July 22, 2011
ISBN: 9780824860189