Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees Contributor(s): McClung, Laren (Editor), Komunyakaa, Yusef (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0393354288 ISBN-13: 9780393354287 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - History | Military - Vietnam War - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric |
Dewey: 808.803 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.14 lbs) 432 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Library Journal 10/15/2017 Booklist 11/01/2017 pg. 10 Publishers Weekly 12/18/2017 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. "Each unique work in Inheriting the War embraces a collective that aims to engage through some daring and passionate truths calibrated by bravery." --Yusef Komunyakaa, from the foreword |
Contributor Bio(s): McClung, Laren: - Laren McClung is a poet and the author of Between Here and Monkey Mountain. She teaches at New York University. |
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