Michigan Quarterly Review

In June 2003, the National Radio's Ketzel Levine presented the art of a twenty-five-year-old Stanford graduate student and photographer, Bin Danh. Danh makes sun-prints on leaves by placing photographic negatives on various, broad-leafed foliage like nasturtiums and philodendra and then letting sunlight do its work. As Balaban opines, Danh's prints shows as if nature itself were crying out in testimony to human suffering.

Binh Danh's Images

As Schafer discusses, Binh Danh's images are striking in part because they are so vividly and concretely intertextual. Furthermore, he cites that the beauty of Danh's creation is that in them remembrance of the past and hope for the future are so carefully intertwined.

One Night Before Saigon

A poem is presented.

What I Know About the Vietnam War

Johnson shares her knowledge about the Vietnam War. Among other things, she says that she was born around that anxious time, when the last American men to make it out of Vietnam alive stepped off planes to find empty airports and no parades, in that time when disappointment seemed to settle over the country like a veil of highway fog, and it would be years--after disco, after the Iran-Contra affair, and after the space shuttle exploded--before it seemed to lift.

The Adopted Vietnamese Community: From Fairy Tales to the Diaspora

Stories of forced migration and kinship separation commonly associated with numerous global diasporas have always been deeply entrenched in the history and culture of the Vietnamese people, from ancient legends to the stories of political refugees who left their homeland at the end of the Vietnam War. Willing discusses the mystical legend of a love affair between Lac Long Quan and Au Co in order to include the very real but largely unknown migration history and diasporic lives of the adopted ...

First Words of a Native Daughter

Baigent attempts to relate childhood, imagination, and home in narrating the experience of returning to a place where she was born, but that she hardly knew, in order to do social work among impoverished families and orphaned children, the segment of the population to which she once belonged. Details of her experiences are presented.

Writing From Exile: Pham Van Ky's Imagined Returns to Viet Nam

In Francophone literature and film, some of the most prominent novelists and filmmakers have imagined or enacted the return to the homeland. However, it is Phan Van Ky who a generation earlier first imagined, beyond the frame, two complementary returns to Viet Nam, setting the stage for those to follow. Yeager examines the first two novels by Pham Van Ky, Freres de sang (1947) (Blood Brothers, translation published 1987) and Celui qui regnera (1945) (The One Who Will Reign).

Difference in Truong Tran's Dust and Conscience

Pelaud reviews dust and conscience by Truong Tran.

The Delta

A short story is presented.

Cowboys

A poem is presented.

Country People (1945-1995)

Vuong-Riddick shares his experiences as a child in Hanoi Vietnam. Among other things, he says that as a child, he woke at dawn, in which he soon detected various morning sounds, including the dragging steps of wooden clogs on the pavement, the horns and small bells, and the shouts of merchants.

Vagaries

A short story is presented.

Night-Blooming Cereus

A poem is presented.

A Photograph

A poem is presented.

Water Buffalo Boy (First Shoot)

A short story is presented.

How I Began to Teach About the Vietnam War

Taylor talks about how he began to teach about the war and how his ideas about the war changed to become his own. Furthermore, he discusses three axioms in the dominant interpretation of the US-Vietnam War that were established by the antiwar movement during the late 1960s and subsequently taken up by teachers at most schools and universities as the basis for explaining the war.

Farewell to Douala

A short story is presented.

Real and Flawed

As Truong discusses, she is just a one-and-a-half generation Vietnamese American novelist, a peddler of fiction, who has not made the archetypal journey back to the land of her birth. Furthermore, she cites that Vietnam for her is not a home, but a green dragon tattoo somewhere in her torso, metaphoric, and absent.

Enlarging the Vietnam Canon: Sigrid Nunez's for Rouenna

Beidle reviews For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez.