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 i...

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