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December 2005: Katrina
Hurricane Katrina blew Vietnamese out of Louisiana and Mississippi
into Texas, where they were greeted by the local Vietnamese
community and volunteers from
afar. Meanwhile, Vietnamese around the world looked on in horror at the plight
of New Orleans, a poor city in a rich country. The first of two essays by international
Vietnamese poet Do Kh. and a photograph by Vietnamese American Tin Nguyen inaugurate
our page of literature from hurricane Katrina.
Click here to visit our Katrina section...
 Featured October 2005:
Nhat Linh
Nhat Linh wrote fiction in Ha Noi in the 1920s and 1930s before
devoting himself to politics. “A Dream of Tu Lam”,
from his first anthology, voices the discontent of a senior
civil servant under the French. He recalls the evening a student
dropped by who had vanished from law school years before. As
they lie in hammocks Tran Luu tells the narrator of a better
life in a remote village. Greg Lockhart’s brief introduction
places the tale in the histories of colonialism, romanticism,
and radicalism and in the Confucian tradition.
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