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Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees
Contributor(s): McClung, Laren (Editor), Komunyakaa, Yusef (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0393354288     ISBN-13: 9780393354287
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2017
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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" (1.14 lbs) 432 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast Asian
 
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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.