Title
Bao Ninh's contribution to Vietnamese and world literature : "The sorrow of war" and his short stories / Cao Kim Lan and Ooi Keat Gin.
ISBN
1032616202
1040124208
9781032616209
9781040124208
9781032616155
9781032616186
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 229 pages) : illustrations.
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Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2024).
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Summary
"Bao Ninh's Contribution to Vietnamese and World Literature analyses and presents the works of Bao Ninh, the most well-known writer in modern Vietnamese literature. His works are renowned both in Vietnam and worldwide and his novel The Sorrow of War, which has been translated into more than 15 languages, is considered to be one of the classic works of war literature. This book by two award-winning scholars, one in war literature and the other in war history, presents for the first time an overall assessment of Bao Ninh's works, notably of his celebrated novel and his short stories. It outlines his life, setting it in the context of war-torn Vietnam whence he was a teenage soldier at the aged of seventeen in the North Vietnamese People's Army (NVPA), highlights the main themes of the corpus of his writings, inter alia of suffering and trauma of war, impacts of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) of veterans, of the futility of war, discusses his approach to writing, compares his writings with others in war literature, and examines and assesses his especial place in world literature. This pioneering monograph of the scholarly evaluation of Bao Ninh himself and his works further engages in the discourse of his contribution to modern Vietnamese literature and world literature. Encouraging a better understanding of wars and conflicts, the book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of modern Asian history, in particular the Vietnam War, Southeast Asian Studies, and Vietnamese and World literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Sorrow of war" and his short stories
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Cao, Kim Lan. Bao Ninh's contribution to Vietnamese and world literature New York : Routledge, 2025
Added to Catalog
October 15, 2024
Series
Routledge research on Asian literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Bảo Ninh: Like and Times of a Maverick
The Indochina War : (1946-1954, 1964-1975)
War in History and War in Literature: Where is the Truth?
Understanding War from An Insider's Perspective: Self-conscious Narrator as a Witness in War
Understanding the Double Trauma in The Sorrow of War
Understanding War From Peripheral Fragments about Humans
Understanding War from the Perspective of a Male Dominant Voice
Bao Ninh and Vietnam's Image.