The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora
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The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora

The first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe,The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora is now ready for pre-order (with a 30% discount). Bringing Vietnamese artists and writers in conversation about their craft and how their work has been shaped and received by mainstream culture and their own communities, this collection highlights how Vietnamese diasporic writers speak about having been cleaved—a condition in which they have been separated from, yet still hew to, the country that they have left behind. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Viet Thanh Nguyen; published by University of California Press.

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Divinatory Poetics: A Talk by Hoa Nguyen on Future Feed
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Divinatory Poetics: A Talk by Hoa Nguyen on Future Feed

From “Divinatory Poetics Talk” by Hoa Nguyen on Future Feed: “Speaking beyond the immediately known to the perceived elsewhere has been a constant preoccupation of mine and informs my poetics and relationship with the lyric poem. Sometimes this elsewhere speaks from ‘extra-human’ sources: messages from ancestors, animal communications, divination methods, and dream.”

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