Vietnam Anthology

Vietnam Anthology
Author: Nancy Anisfield
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1987
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780879723965

Novel excerpts include: Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers, David Halberstam's One Very Hot Day, and Jeff Danziger's Lieutenant Kitt. Short stories include Asa Baber's "The Ambush," Tobias Wolff's "Wingfield," and Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried." Drama excerpts include David Rabe's Streamers and Lanford Wilson's The 5th of July. Poets include: Denise Levertov, Jan Barry, E. D. Ehrhart, Basil T. Paquet, Stephen Sossaman, Bryan Alec Floyd, Bruce Weigl, and Trang Thi Nga.

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Light at the End of the Tunnel
Author: Andrew Jon Rotter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780842027137

This updated and revised edition of Light at the End of the Tunnel is an exhaustive account of the Vietnam War that gives a total overview of the conflict. Starting with Ho Chi Minh's revolt against the French, Andrew Rotter takes the reader through the succeeding years as scholars, government officials, journalists, and others recount the important events and examine issues that developed during this tumultuous time. This book is essential for anyone who has an interest in truly understanding the Vietnam War. These readings will both educate and entertain students about this turning point in the history of the United States and, indeed, the world.

The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975

The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975
Author: Tuong Vu
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501745158

Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975, presents us with an interpretation of "South Vietnam" as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government. The moving and honest memoirs collected, translated, and edited here by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear describe the experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from many walks of life during the fraught years of Vietnam's Second Republic, leading up to and encompassing what Americans generally call the "Vietnam War." The voices gift the reader a sense of the authors' experiences in the Republic and their ideas about the nation during that time. The light and careful editing hand of Vu and Fear reveals that far from a Cold War proxy struggle, the conflict in Vietnam featured a true ideological divide between the communist North and the non-communist South.

Other Moons

Other Moons
Author:
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0231551630

In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find their lives upended by the revelation that their fathers fought on opposite sides of the war. Two lonely veterans in Hanoi meet years after the war has ended through a newspaper dating service. A psychic assists the search for the body of a long-vanished soldier. The father of a girl suffering from dioxin poisoning struggles with corrupt local officials. The twenty short stories collected in Other Moons range from the intensely personal to narratives that deal with larger questions of remembrance, trauma, and healing. By a diverse set of authors, including many veterans, they span styles from social realism to tales of the fantastic. Yet whether describing the effects of Agent Orange exposure or telling ghost stories, all speak to the unresolved legacy of a conflict that still haunts Vietnam. Among the most widely anthologized and popular pieces of short fiction about the war in Vietnam, these works appear here for the first time in English. Other Moons offers Anglophone audiences an unparalleled opportunity to experience how the Vietnamese think and write about the conflict that consumed their country from 1954 to 1975—a perspective still largely missing from American narratives.

An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems

An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems
Author: Sanh Thông Huỳnh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1996
Genre: Vietnamese poetry
ISBN:

He has organized the poems - which range from ancient to very recent works - around nine main themes that include Vietnamese views of society, responses to foreign influences, and feelings about such universal themes as relationships between men and women, the role of art in life, and conflicts among social classes.

Vietnam Voices

Vietnam Voices
Author: John Clark Pratt
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820333697

Arranged chronologically and in counterpoint, this unique book samples all conceivable forms of oral and written documentation to illuminate the United States' involvement in its longest and most divisive war. From foot soldiers to generals, politicians to protesters, hawks and doves, their attitudes and experiences are graphically revealed.

Dear America

Dear America
Author: Bernard Edelman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393323047

More than 25 years after the official end of the Vietnam War, "Dear America" allows readers to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served there. Excerpt in "Time" magazine.

Words of War

Words of War
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Includes both fiction and nonfiction showing the American viewpoint of the Vietnam War and its aftermath.

Vietnamese Folk Poetry

Vietnamese Folk Poetry
Author: John Balaban
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2003
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1556591861

A bilingual anthology of lyric poem-songs from Vietnam's oral folk tradition, this revised edition includes new poems and an eloquent Introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.