Modern Vietnamese Literature in Translation - Fall 2012 - 1.1.12
Modern Vietnamese Literature in Translation - Fall 2012 - 1.1.12
Modern Vietnamese Literature in Translation - Fall 2012 - 1.1.12
Fall
2012
Fall
2012
* Screening
Dong mau anh hung (The Rebel) by Truc Charlie Nguyen
Session 3 (Tuesday, February 21): Glimpses of Vietnamese Language and Writing Systems
Readings
Nguyn Vn Huyn, Intellectual and Artistic Life in The Ancient Civilization of Vietnam, Hanoi: Th
Gii Publisher, 1995, pp. 267-293 (packet)
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Session 4 (Thursday, February 23): Understanding Traditional Vietnamese Literature (1): Folk Literature
and Poetry Written in Chinese and Nm
Readings
Folk Literature in An Introduction to Vietnamese Literature, pp. 29-50
Wynn Wilcox, Women and Mythology in Vietnamese History: Le Ngoc Han, Ho Xuan Huong, and the
Production of Historical Continuity in Vietnam, History Faculty Papers, Paper 1 (course website)
Spring Essence The Poetry of H Xun Hng, translated by John Balaban, Copper Canyon Press,
2000, pp. 18-27 and 117-118 (packet)
* Screening
Hat ma ri bao lu (Bride of Silence) by OAN Minh Phng & OAN Thanh Nghia
CONSULTING WITH THE INSTRUTOR ABOUT POTENTIAL TOPICS FOR THE FINAL PAPER
Session 5 (Tuesday, February 28): Understanding Traditional Vietnamese Literature (2): Verse Narratives
Readings
Growth of Narrative Verse in An Introduction to Vietnamese Literature, pp. 95-98
The Historical Background and Introduction in Nguyn Du, The Tale of Kiu, translated by Huynh
Sanh Thng, Yale University Press, 1983, pp. xi-xl, plus excerpts from the tale (packet)
Session 6 (Thursday, March 1): Early Modern Vietnamese Novels
Readings
The Twentieth Century in An Introduction to Vietnamese Literature, pp. 107-130
Cng Huyn Tn N Nha Trang, Embodiment of Social Moods: Hoang Ngoc Phachs Novel, T Tm
(course website)
Nht Linh, Severance, translated by James Banerian, 1998 (selected chapters, packet)
NO screening for this week
Session 7 (Tuesday, March 6): The Self-Reliance Group and Its Contemporaries
Readings
Neil J. Jamieson, "The Battle of the Novels" in Understanding Vietnam, University of California Press,
1995, pp. 117-154 (packet)
Thach Lam, The Market Girl (short story, packet)
Khai Hng, Monk Tue (short story, packet)
Nht Linh, Two Beauties (short story, packet)
Session 8 (Thursday, March 8): Critical Realism: Novels and Reportage Works
Readings
John C. Schafer, "Introduction" to When the Light's Put Out (packet)
Ng Tt T, When the Light's Put Out, translated by Ng Vinh Long (selected chapters, packet)
Tam Lang, I Pulled a Rickshaw in The Light of the Capital: Three Modern Vietnamese Classics,
translated by Greg and Monique Lockhart, Oxford, 1996 (packet)
* Screening
M Thao Thi vang bong (Glorious Time in M Thao Hamlet) by Vi t Linh
Session 9 (Tuesday, March 13): Documentary Literature, Satires and Social Criticism: Vu Trong Phung
Readings
Peter Zinoman, Vu Trong Phungs Dumb Luck and the Nature of Vietnamese Modernism in Vu Trong
Phung, Dumb Luck, edited by Peter Zinoman, translated by Nguyn Nguy t Cm and Peter Zinoman,
University of Michigan Press, 2005, pp. 1-30 and selected chapters (packet)
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Thuy Tranviet, Vu Trong Phungs The Industry of Marrying Europeans A Satirical Narrative in Vu
Trong Phung, The Industy of Marrying Europeans, translated by Thuy Tranviet, Cornell Southeast Asia
Program, 2006, pp. 9-21 and selected chapters (packet)
MID-TERM DETAILED PAPER OUTLINE & ANNOTATED REFERENCES DUE
Session 10 (Thursday, March 15): Socialist Realism Literature
Readings
Trng Chinh, "The Stand of Marxist Culture" and "Some Concrete Problems of Our Country's Present
Literature and Art" (Chapters II and VII from Marxism and Vietnamese Culture) (packet)
L Minh Khu, "Distant Stars" (short story, course website)
Nguyn Sang, "The Ivory Comb" (short story, packet)
Selected scenes from the movie Canh ng hoang (The Abandoned Field) by Hng Sn
* Screening
Bao gi cho n thang 10 (When the Tenth Month Comes) by ng Nh t Minh
Session 11 (Tuesday, March 20): Revolutionizing Vietnamese New Poets
Readings
Neil Jamieson, "Shattered Identities and Contested Images: Reflections of Poetry and History in 20thCentury Vietnam," Crossroads, vol. 7:2 (1992), pp. 71-134 (excerpts, course website)
Selected poems from Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, translated by Huynh Sanh Thng, Yale University
Press, 2001 (packet)
Session 12 (Thursday, March 22): Pre-1975 Southern Vietnamese Literature: An Overview
Readings
The Man from Binh inh and An Exile in His Own Country in John Schafer, Vo Phin and
the Sadness of Exile, Northern Illinois University Monograph Series on Southeast Asia, 2006
(excerpts, course website)
Cng Huyn Tn N Nha Trang, "Women Writers of South Vietnam (1954-1975)", Vietnam
Forum 9 (Winter-Spring, 1987), pp. 149-221 (excerpts, packet)
Vo Phin, Love Cherished for a Thousand Years (short story, packet)
Binh Nguyn L c, The Mam Grove (short story, packet)
Duyn Anh, The Thien Ly Flower (short story, packet)
* Screening
Mua len tru (Buffalo Boy) by Nguyn Vo Nghim Minh
Session 13 (Tuesday, March 27): Post-1975 Literature of Reunified Vietnam
Readings
Nguyn Minh Chu, "Writing about War", translated by Huynh Sanh Thng, Vietnam Review 3 (AutumnWinter 1997), pp. 438-446 (packet)
_____, "A Boat in the Distance" (short story, packet)
_____, "A Ferry Stop in the Country" (short story, packet)
Session 14 (Thursday, March 29): Renovation Literature (1): Nguyn Huy Thi p
Readings
Dana Healy, Literature in Transition: An Overview of Vietnamese Writing of the Renovation Period.' in
David Smyth (ed.), The Canon in Southeast Asian Literatures, Curzon Press, 2000, pp. 41-50. (course
website)
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Interview with Nguyn Huy Thi p , Journal of Vietnamese Studies, vol. 1:1-2 (February/August 2006),
pp. 485-498 (course website)
Nguyn Huy Thi p, The General Retires (short story, packet)
-----------------------, The Winds of Hua Tat Ten Stories in a Small Mountain Village (short stories,
packet)
* Screening
Rng en (Black Forest) by Vng c
Session 15 (Tuesday, April 3): Renovation Literature (2): Bao Ninh
Readings
Steven P. Liparulo, Incense and Ashes: The Postmodern Work of Refutation in Three Vietnam War
Novels, War, Literature and the Arts, vol. 15:1&2, pp. 71-94
Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War, translated by Phan Thanh Hao, edited by Frank Palmos, Riverhead Books,
1996 (selected chapters, packet)
Session 16 (Thursday, April 5): War Diaries and the Revitalization of Revolutionary Tradition
Readings
Vng Tri Nhan, The Diary of ng Thuy Trm and the Postwar Vietnamese Mentality, Journal of
Vietnamese Studies, vol. 3:2 (2008), pp. 180-195
Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, translated by Andrew X. Pham, Introduction by
Frances Fitzgerald, Three Rivers Press, 2007, Introduction and selected chapters (packet)
Selected scenes from Con lai vi thi gian (Lasting with Time)
* Screening
ng t (Dont Burn) by ng Nh t Minh
Session 17 (Tuesday, April 10): The Multifacetedness of Contemporary Vietnamese Literature
Long S. Le, The Politics of the Vietnamese Post-War Generation, Education about Asia, vol. 14:2 (Fall
2009), pp. 43-48 (course website)
Pham Thi Hoai, The Machinery of Vietnamese Art and Literature in the Post-Renovation, PostCommunist (and Post-Modern) Period, Occasional Paper, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
(course website)
Pham Thi Hoai, Nine Down Makes Ten (short story, packet)
Tran Vu, Gunboat on the Yangtze (short story, packet)
Session 18 (Thursday, April 12): An Old Theme Revisited: Love in Contemporary Vietnamese Literature
Phan Thi Vang Anh and Pham Thu Thuy, Lets Talk about Love Depictions of Love and Marriage in
Contemporary Vietnamese Short Fiction in Lisa B. W. Drummond and Mandy Thomas (Eds.),
Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, pp. 202-218 (packet)
Phan Thi Vang Anh, Thuong (short story, packet)
Nguyen Ngoc Tu, The End of a Season of Beauty (short story, packet)
Doan Le, The Last Night in Our Double Bed (short story, packet)
* Screening
e mn (Giving Hired Birth/Hired Pregnancy) by L Bao Trung
FINAL PAPER DUE BY 10:00 PM ON APRIL 19, 2012
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