Performing Pain-Taking and Ghostly Remembering in Vietnam

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rivka Syd Eisner
Keyword(s):  
Women Veterans ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Vietnamese American ◽  
Women's Tradition ◽  
A Performance

Cô Định and cô Xuân, two women veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, recount their memories of torture during the Vietnamese-American war. Their remembering requires a performance-centered exploration of the Vietnamese women's tradition of “pain-taking,” as well as their haunting return to the Con Dao prisons as veteran-tourists.

Between “I” and “We”: Viet Thanh Nguyen's Interethnic Multitudes

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
pp. 396-405
Author(s):  
Caroline Rody
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Vietnamese American ◽  
Social Visions ◽  
The Mind ◽  
A Performance

The rise of an interethnic imagination in recent american literature has been remaking what we think of as ethnic fiction into interethnic fiction. While memory, history, and tradition continue as shaping forces in American letters, an urge toward encounter with others is vividly reworking fictional structures, plots, casts of characters, and uses of language, as well as social visions, literary ambitions, and currents of intertextual influence. In some cases, the mind of a protagonist or narrator, indeed the very mind of a text, comes to seem the site of a momentous encounter of peoples, a living human nexus (Rody). Such is the case in the fiction of Viet Thanh Nguyen, in which the interethnic impulse generates a remarkable pronominal drama, a performance that oscillates between a narratorial “I” and a “we” to negotiate—across the pain and struggle of war, dislocation, and immigrant Americanization and across disparate political and literary allegiances—a Vietnamese American voice.

A performance schedule for extended space flight with the chimpanzee.

1962 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. H. Rholes ◽  
H. H. Reynolds ◽  
M. E. Grunzke ◽  
D. N. Farrer
Keyword(s):  
Space Flight ◽  
Extended Space ◽  
A Performance

The advantage of using a performance-based task to differentiate MCI subtypes

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justina F. Avila ◽  
Amina Flowers ◽  
Jill Razani ◽  
Ellen Woo ◽  
John Ringman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
A Performance
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