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Introduction: Environment and Narrative in Vietnam
This essay provides a brief introduction to issues of environment, culture, and narrative in Vietnam as well as a survey of the other essays included...
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Civil War, Socialism’s Underworld, and the Environment
This chapter examines how Nguyễn Trí’s novel, The Fantasy of Paradise, along with his short stories from the collection Gold, Gems, Incense...
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Tai Narrative, Ritual, and Discourses of the Environment in North Central Vietnam
As a result of the policy of cultural revitalization pursued by the Vietnamese government since 2004, ethnic minorities have restored and promoted...
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Argument from Similitude in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Deliberative Dissent from War
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s anti-war speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” is a noteworthy example of deliberation by dissent from the margins. Attention is given...
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Identity and Culture War on Campus
This chapter follows from the axiom that the university is one of the primal scenes of the American culture wars. Of the many culture war discourses...
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Ecopedagogy, War Memories, and Sensory Experiences of Nature in Contemporary Vietnamese Children’s Literature
This article discusses Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần’s famous work of children’s literature, Open the Window, Eyes Closed (Vừa Nhắm Mắt Vừa Mở Cửa Sổ), and its...
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Inhospitable Homelands: Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion in African American War Narratives
War is often a pivotal part of a nation’s self-written narrative. The experiences of soldiers and their tales of valour and glory are often...
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‘A Perpetual State of War’: Legacy and Unresolved Conflict in Post-War Spy Fiction
The political landscape of the twenty-first century differs greatly from that of the Cold War and post-Cold War years. Modern threats are rooted in...
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Narratives of the Natural World in Vietnamese Postwar Movies (1986–2020)
This essay analyzes three innovative Vietnamese films that are different from mainstream movies about the Vietnam War, between the beginning of the...
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The Vietnam War and Refugee Writings
This chapter examines the othering and liminal experiences of postwar Vietnamese-American communities through reading a 2010 novel by...
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Still More War
Still More War. Eliza Richards, Alice Fahs, M. L. Rosenthal, J. D. McClatchy, Randall Fuller, and Ed Folsom on Whitman’s war poems. Philip Beidler on...
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Violence, Magic, Certainty: Journalistic Worlding and Middle East War
Journalism plays an outsized role in sha** the meanings of faraway violence. While journalism promises to categorize, define, and explain war in...
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Snapshots of War (1939–1945)
This chapter and the following, “Art and Intelligence” highlight Bowen’s wartime experiences. Being as old as the century, she lived through World...
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Orientalism and international relations: a case study of Sino-Vietnamese relations
Using Edward Said’s concept of positional superiority, this article examines the International Relations knowledge production of Sino-Vietnamese...
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The Horrors of American War
This chapter, The Horrors of American War. From Whitman’s traveling to the battlegrounds in search of his brother and then working and living in...
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Political Dimensions in Vietnamese Ecofiction
This essay contributes to the postcolonial ecocriticism by examining political allegories in three Vietnamese short stories:“Kiến và người” (The Ants...
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Family Journeys: Refugee Histories in Vietnamese American Graphic Memoirs
This chapter examines how the graphic memoir has been used for refugee memory and the telling of refugee histories with a focus on two works by...
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FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT
On March 25, 1964, Adorno dreamt he had gathered a mob in order to kill a psychotherapist. This psychotherapist was about to give a lecture on...
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Ecologies of Coffee Sustainability in the Central Highlands
Ecologies of sustainability and recent narratives about climate change in the Vietnamese coffee industry illuminate how the environment is imagined...
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EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY UNTIL THE END OF WORLD WAR II
As heterogeneous as the various artistic avantgardes of the early twentieth century may be in their programmatic orientation, they are united in the...