Writing From Diasporic Space: A Poetic Narrative of a Refugee Daughter

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780042110423
Author(s):  
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Poetic Narrative ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Vietnamese Refugee

The poetic narrative recounts a story of a Vietnamese refugee daughter I met in New Zealand. Her experience of family separation and dispersion when her parents decided to flee the country after the Vietnam war ended in 1975 evoked a sense of trauma, a collective trauma of thousands of Vietnamese who suffered from losses: “their country,” their home, their families, and their place, to the oceans they crossed. Many of them never had the future they thought they would when they stepped on the overcrowded, half-sunk boat into the dark and could not manage to see the light.

Endings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Greene
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Centrifugal Forces ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Robert Duncan ◽  
Denise Levertov

This chapter details the life and career of Denise Levertov from 1972 to 1975. This period was marked by critical endings for Levertov, an extraordinary time of emotional turmoil and confusion. Three centrifugal forces—the end of the Vietnam War, her break with mentor Robert Duncan, and her divorce from Mitch—could have overwhelmed her. In the end they did not. She survived, and haltingly searched for a new life. Two books of poetry appeared. Footprints (1972) and The Freeing of the Dust (1975) both attested to her longing for freedom and desire to leave the past behind, and a collection of essays, The Poet in the World (1973), established her preeminence in poetics. As she groped toward the future, Levertov carried a talisman with her, a new understanding of her name Denise. Previously she assumed Denise derived from the Greek “Dionysus.” Now to her delight she discovered that in Hebrew its origin was in “Daleth,” meaning “door,” “entrance, exit/way through of/giving and receiving.” Obliquely she began to live into this new self-understanding.

Is There a Future for New Communist States?

2021 ◽  
pp. 315-318
Author(s):  
George W. Breslauer
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
To Come

Communism was the offspring of wars: World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. Are such wars likely in the coming decades? If not, new communist regimes on the Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist models are unlikely to come to power in the name of Marxism-Leninism. Whether that ideological heritage becomes again a beacon for revolution may depend on whether, in the future, the historical imagination comes to view communism as having been an achievement or a tragedy.

War Stories: The Taylor-Buzzanco Debate and How We Think about the Vietnam War

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 453-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Miller
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
War Stories

This paper examines the recent debate between historians Keith Taylor and Robert Buzzanco over the interpretation of the Vietnam War and considers the implications of the debate for the future of Vietnam War studies. Miller analyzes Taylor and Buzzanco's differences over the origins and evolution of the war, and finds that both historians rely too heavily on the Cold War to explain the motives and actions of leaders and groups who participated in the conflict. The paper concludes with a proposal to reconceptualize the war as a contest among the multiple ways of thinking about modernization.

Unacknowledged Casualties of the Vietnam War: Experiences of Partners of New Zealand Veterans

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley G. Frederikson ◽  
Kerry Chamberlain ◽  
Nigel Long
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
The Vietnam War
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document