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Summary: "In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed ...
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American Heritage. Oct, 1995, Vol. 46 Issue 6, p108, 2 p.
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* By the time Saigon fell, Americans were so sadly familiar with the war's televised jungle patrols, booby traps, napalmed earth, and body bags that little ...
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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 ...
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban ...
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Summary: Hang, a modern Vietnamese woman, is forced to grow up quickly in her turbulent country, squeezed between traditional gender roles and the rampant corruption ...
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Age, The (Melbourne, Australia), October 27, 2012 Life & Style First, p. 34 3pp
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THE DARKEST LITTLE ROOM By Patrick Holland Transit Lounge, $29.95 REVIEW CHRIS FLYNN INDEPENDENT Melbourne publisher Transit Lounge has made a significant mark on the Australian ...
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Sun Herald, The (Sydney, Australia), September 16, 2012 Unwind First, p. 15 2pp
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Fishing for Tigers Emily Maguire (Picador, $29.99) Reviewed by Meredith Lewin At the heart of Australian writer Emily Maguire's work lies an urgent need to pull ...
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War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. 2021, Vol. 33, p27-54. 28p.
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The article presents an interview with authors Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock. Quan Manh Ha discusses his book "Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of ...
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Summary: Percival Chen, a headmaster at a prestigious English-language school in 1960s Saigon, must exile his trouble-making son and to deal with his troubles and ...
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Summary: Percival Chen, a headmaster at a prestigious English-language school in 1960s Saigon, must exile his trouble-making son and to deal with his troubles and ...
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The North American entertainment industry is rapidly consolidating, and new modes of technological delivery challenge Canadian content regulations. An understanding of how Canadian culture negotiates ...
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Summary: A Vietnamese man working as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas's cook in 1934 Paris looks back on his early life in his native country ...
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The notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States'idea of itself obscures the rich--and by no means naïve--seam of anti-war thinking ...
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War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. 2011, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p22-33. 12p.
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The author discusses the memory and meaning of narrative reflections during the "Twentieth Century Warfare and American Memory" symposium held at Regis University in Denver, ...
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The noise gathered from a lifetime of engaging with war, race, religion, memory, illness, and family echoes through the vignettes, quotations, graffiti, and poetry that ...
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War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. 2009, Vol. 21 Issue 1/2, p384-398. 15p.
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The article presents the author's reflections regarding the use of writing as a therapeutic practice for war veterans. The author's personal experiences in writing the ...
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This book charts the changing complexion of American culture in one of the most culturally vibrant of twentieth-century decades. It provides a vivid account of ...
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Donald Anderson, a former U.S. Air Force officer, has compiled a haunting anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years ...
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Black Issues Book Review. Jul/Aug2002, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p24-26. 3p. 3 Color Photographs.
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Provides information on the book-to-movie and vice versa trend in the U.S. entertainment industry, as of July 2002. Novels written by writer-producer-director John Ridley; Distinction ...
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This unique, four-volume set explains to students how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life. Written by scholars ...
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Summary: John Kelly tries to juggle two assignments helping a friend and rescuing a group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp.
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Summary: Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage, and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City ...
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Summary: Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City ...
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Stephen Mann-- loyal son, war veteran, divorced father--is the subject of Donald Anderson's contemporary short-story cycle, Fire Road. In this award-winning collection, Mann negotiates life's ...
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BUTLER, Robert Olen, Jr. American. Granite City, Illinois, 20 January 1945. Northwestern University, B.S. 1967; University of Iowa, M.A. 1969; postgraduate study at the New School for ...
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BERGER, Thomas (Louis) American. Cincinnati, Ohio, 20 July 1924. The University of Cincinnati, B.A. 1948; Columbia University, New York, 1950-51. Served in the United States Army, 1943-46. ...
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The Mississippi Quarterly. Winter, 1993, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p105, 8 p.
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Shortly before sunrise on September 21, 1967, Jerry Wayne Boutwell, an eighteen-year-old Mississippian who had never been more than one hundred miles from his home in Pearl ...
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The Mississippi Quarterly. Winter, 1993, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p105, 8 p.
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Shortly before sunrise on September 21, 1967, Jerry Wayne Boutwell, an eighteen-year-old Mississippian who had never been more than one hundred miles from his home in Pearl ...
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The CIFF's 40 th edition will kick off Wednesday with both pride and fear. With a long history since it was first established in 1976, and with ...
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