American war legacy
ancestor reverence motifs
anti-colonial resistance writing
Asian diaspora voices
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Cold War era Asia
collective memory studies
comparative war literature
cross-cultural literary studies
cultural resilience
decolonization narratives
elegy and remembrance
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family separation stories
freedom struggle narratives
global south literature
heritage preservation through literature
historical memory in verse
history through personal narrative
homeland and exile themes
identity and language
intergenerational memory
landscape and homeland imagery
literary responses to conflict
memory and mourning rituals
migration and displacement
modern Vietnamese writers
national mythology and legend
national self-determination themes
oral tradition influences
poetry of rebuilding and healing
political expression through art
postcolonial Asian studies
postwar cultural memory
prison writings tradition
resilience under occupation
resistance art movements
revolutionary era art
revolutionary leaders in literature
river and village symbolism
rural and urban imagery in Asia
soldier and civilian perspectives
Southeast Asian verse
spiritual symbolism in Vietnamese culture
testimony in poetic form
translation studies poetry
transnational poetics
trauma and survival narratives
twentieth-century Asian history
Vietnamese literature in translation
wartime storytelling
women's voices in wartime
Product details
- ISBN 9781558491410
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 130 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 1998
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This powerful and moving bilingual collection affirms the importance of poetry in the formation and perpetuation of Vietnamese national Identity. These poems testify to the centrality of war in Vietnamese history and experience over the past fifty years. Beginning thw Ho Chi Minh in the 1940s and moving forward in time to Nguyen Quang Thieu in the 1990s, the book presents significant poetry reflecting the thoughts and feeling of the major Vietnamese writers who lived through many years of war, first with the French and later with the Americans. Mountain River will serve as a valuable introductory survey of Vietnamese poetry written since World War II and as an example of the integral role of poets and poetry in Vietnamese culture.
Kevin Bowen is director of thye William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is contranslator of Le Luu's A Time Far Past (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997). Nguyen da Chung is an associate of the Jointer Center and cotranslator of A Time Far Past. Bruce Weigl is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and cotranslator of Poems from Captured Documents (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994), a collection of Vietnamese soldiers' poetry.
