My Viet : : Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present / / ed. by Michele Janette.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Cao, Lan,; Chanoff, David,; Coburn, Jewell Reinhart,; Dinh, Linh,; Dinh, Tran Van,; Elliott, Duong Van Mai,; Hayslip, Le Ly,; Ho, Khanh,; Hoanh, Le Van,; Huỳnh, Jade Ngọc Quang,; Janette, Michele,; Krall, Yung,; Kỳ, Nguyễn Cao,; Lam, Andrew,; Lan, Mộng,; Larsen, Wendy Wilder,; Lieberman, Kim-An,; Mai, Nguyen Thi Tuyet,; McCauley, Anna Kim-Lan,; Nga, Tran Thi,; Nguyen, Kien,; Nguyen, Qui,; Nhuong, Huynh Quang,; Pham, Andrew X.,; Phan, Aimee,; Pittman, Bob,; Quyen, Duong Van,; Spieldenner, Andrew,; Tang, Truong Nhu,; Thu-Lâm, Nguyễn Thị,; Toai, Doan Van,; Tran, Barbara,; Tran, Trương,; Truong, Monique,; Tuyết, Trần Khánh,; Vu, Nguyen Van,; Wurtz, Jay,; Điệm, Bùi,; Đôn, Trần Văn,
• HerausgeberIn: Janette, Michele,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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