TY - BOOK AU - Cao,Lan AU - Chanoff,David AU - Coburn,Jewell Reinhart AU - Dinh,Linh AU - Dinh,Tran Van AU - Elliott,Duong Van Mai AU - Hayslip,Le Ly AU - Ho,Khanh AU - Hoanh,Le Van AU - Huỳnh,Jade Ngọc Quang AU - Janette,Michele AU - Krall,Yung AU - Kỳ,Nguyễn Cao AU - Lam,Andrew AU - Lan,Mộng AU - Larsen,Wendy Wilder AU - Lieberman,Kim-An AU - Mai,Nguyen Thi Tuyet AU - McCauley,Anna Kim-Lan AU - Nga,Tran Thi AU - Nguyen,Kien AU - Nguyen,Qui AU - Nhuong,Huynh Quang AU - Pham,Andrew X. AU - Phan,Aimee AU - Pittman,Bob AU - Quyen,Duong Van AU - Spieldenner,Andrew AU - Tang,Truong Nhu AU - Thu-Lâm,Nguyễn Thị AU - Toai,Doan Van AU - Tran,Barbara AU - Tran,Trương AU - Truong,Monique AU - Tuyết,Trần Khánh AU - Vu,Nguyen Van AU - Wurtz,Jay AU - Điệm,Bùi AU - Đôn,Trần Văn TI - My Viet: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present SN - 9780824834463 AV - PS508.V54 U1 - 810.8/089592073 22 PY - 2011///] CY - Honolulu : PB - University of Hawaii Press, KW - American literature KW - Vietnamese American authors KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; 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" --; Permissions; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860189 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824860189 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824860189/original ER -