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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Description
"All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through literature, film, monuments, memorials, museums, and landscapes...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his...
3) Go home!
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Feminist Press edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 291 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Anthology of twenty-four selections of fiction, memoir and poetry by Asian American women authors.
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. Poignant and insightful, this collection of essays reveals moments of uncertainty, resilience int he face of trauma, and a reimagining of identity. The Displaced is a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge. -- Adapted...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"What inspires you? That's the simple, but profound question more than forty renowned authors answer in LIGHT THE DARK. Each author picks a favorite passage--from a novel, a song, a poem--to reveal what gets them started and keeps them going doing the creative work they love. From there, incredible stories of life changing encounters with art emerge, like how sneaking a volume of Stephen King stories into his job as a night security guard helped Khaled...
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