Title:
Inheriting the war : poetry and prose by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees / edited by Laren McClung ; foreword by Yusef Komunyakaa.
Author:
McClung, Laren, editor.
Komunyakaa, Yusef, author of introduction, etc.
Publication Information:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
©2018
Call Number:
PS509.V53 I54 2018
Conference Subject:
Abstract:
"Descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees confront the aftermath of war and, in verse and prose, deliver another kind of war story. Fifty years after the Vietnam War, this anthology by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees--American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Diaspora, Hmong, Australian, and others--confronts war and its aftermath. What emerges is an affecting portrait of the effects of war and family--an intercultural, generational dialogue on silence, memory, landscape, imagination, Agent Orange, displacement, postwar trauma, and the severe realities that are carried home. Including such acclaimed voices as Viet Thanh Nguyen, Karen Russell, Terrance Hayes, Suzan-Lori Parks, Nick Flynn, and Ocean Vuong, Inheriting the War enriches the discourse of the Vietnam War and provides a collective conversation that attempts to transcend the recursion of history"-- Provided by publisher.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780393354287
Physical Description:
415 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Child of the enemy / The father of all things / To a war correspondent ; Recollection / Lanterns ; Falling / Air page. Petroleum ; Kapok ; Cork ; Ash ; Silk / Split ; Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng / Year of the hare / Premetheus ; Year without dusting ; Achilles, Veterans' Hospital (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) / Viet Cong University ; Prisoner with a dictionary / Aphasia / Memories of my ghost brother / Practical joke ; The ticking is the bomb / The long shadow of war / In the war / How I didn't find my father's war in Vietnam / The book I didn't write / The stories they carried / The gangster we are all looking for / Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice / Part of memory is forgetting / Listen / July in Vietnam ; Aerial / How to move ; Bedtime story #1 / Missing ; On the line ; Blue raft / The things they carried that we carry ; Hung lyres / Field ; A new Việt Nam / The Cloverleaf ; Phobias / Trouble man / Women from the 1960s (I) ; A bullet fired into the night / The good immigrant student / Agent Orange poem ; Independence Day 2010 / Buffet etiquette ; Cockfight ; Tater tot hot-dish / The wheel of history / The boat girl ; My mother ; Quảng trị / The examples ; My father's laughter ; July ; August / Mekong River ; Packing poem / April 30 / Lavinia writing in the sand ; A history of bamboo / Father comes home from the wars. Part 1 ; Part 3 ; Part 7: Playing chopsticks ; Part 11: His eternal return--a play for my father / The fall of Saigon / Motherland / War before memory : a Vietnamese American protest organizer's history against Miss Saigon / The boneyard / Jersey City / Vanellinae ; What I know of doorways ; Love / Yellow flare ; Mall flare / Underground in Vietnam / Invasion / Kampuchean skin ; Left-behind looks for the apsaras ; When the war was over / Ru / Self-immolation ; Heirloom / The silent opening ; war dreams / Light from a burning citadel ; I the body of Laos and all my UXOs ; When the mountains rose beneath us, we became the valley / The uncanny / Twenty two ; The year of the pig ; Flower bomb / The weight of our living : on hope, fire escapes, & visible desperation / A soundtrack of the war / Fisherman's hang ; Saint Michael, with Agent Orange / War music awakening for soldier's daughter ; Song of napalm (by Bruce Weigl) / Two days home ; In my father's words, 1969 / The man in the jeep
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