Forking paths: How shall we mourn the dead?

Amerasia Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-175

  Thu Huong, Nguyên Vo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 70449913871     PISSN: 00447471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17953/amer.31.2.g232251372h12k78     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths," trans. by Donald A. Yates, Everything and Nothing (New York: New Direction, 1999)
2. Edward Said, "Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition," Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 2003), xxix
3. translated as Novel Without a Name, by Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPherson (New York: William Morrow, 1995). Duong Thu Huong had to debut her novel with a diasporic Vietnamese publisher and with a French publisher. She spent short stints in prison and longer periods under various forms of house arrest. Also, see Bao Ninh, Noi Buon Chien Trank, translated as The Sorrows of War, by Phan Thanh Hao (New York: Riverhead, 1993)
4. Former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, on the occasion of this year's thirtieth anniversary of victory, asks his government to tone down the triumphant declarations and calls for more recognition of the diversity of South Vietnamese groups and their contribution to the nation, rather than counting them all as followers of the U.S. His tone, however, is to warn the government away from an incessant return to past glory, rather than to open up a venue for debate about history. A full text of Vo Van Kiet's interview could be found in Dien Dan Forum 151 (May 2005), 1, 10-11
5. I myself have listened to many eyewitness accounts of killings between the VCP-led Vietminh and other groups. See also, Le Xuan Khoa, Viet Nam 1945-1995, Vol. 1 (Bethesda, Maryland: Tien Rong, 2004), 68-71
6. Bernard Fall, The Two Vietnams (New York: Praeger, 1964), 130-134
7. Martin Wisckol, "Parties Court Little Saigon," Orange County Register, May 18, 2004
8. Richard Schmidtt, "Ashcroft Grilled over Memos about Torture," Los Angeles Times, June 9, 2004
9. Richard Serrano, "Prison Interrogators' Gloves Came Off before Abu Graib," Los Angeles Times, June 9, 2004
10. Douglas Jehl and Neil Lewis, "Conventions Were Applied Selectively," Orange County Register, May 23, 2004
11. For a complete text of Gonzalez's memo, see http://msnbc.msn.com/id/ 4999148/ site/newsweek/
12. David Cole, Enemy Aliens (New York: The New Press, 2003), 57-58
13. Shu-mei Shih, "Global Literature and the Technologies of Recognition," PMLA 119:1, 16-30
14. La Force Noire, quoted by Myron Echeberg, Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960 (Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1991), 1
15. Douglas Porch, The French Foreign Legion (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 634
16. Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut, Immigrant America: A Portrait (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996)
17. Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2004
18. Quoted in the Los Angeles Times and examined by Chorswang Ngin, "The Acculturation of Southeast Asian Refugees in Orange County," in Fong and Shinagawa, eds., Asian Pacific Americans: Experiences and Perspectives (Prentice Hall, 2000), 95
19. Viet Thanh Nguyen, "A Destructive Obsession: Vietnamese Americans Are Held Hostage by Fanatic Anti-Communist Faction," Orange County Register, June 6, 2004, Opinion Section. I am one of those who signed it
20. Sigman Freud, The Freud Reader (New York: WW Norton, [1917] 1989), 584-589
21. On melancholia and immigrants, see for example Julia Kristeva, Nations without Nationalism, trans. Leon Roudiez (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), 43
22. and Bonnie Honnig, "Ruth, the Model fmigr," in Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins, eds., Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), 192-215
23. Honig, Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation, Ibid., 209
24. See for instance Aihwa Ong, "Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making," Current Anthropology 37:5, 737-762
25. Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996)
26. David Palumbo-Liu, Asian/American (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999)
27. R. Clifton Spargo, "The Ethical Uselessness of Grief: Randall Jarrell's 'The Refugees'" PMLA 120:1,49-65
28. For example, plays and the photo-timelines at the April 30, 2004 commemoration ceremony at the Vietnam War Memorial in Westminster. There are countless oral and written accounts of the ordeal of passage. For an example, please see Tran Vu, "The Coral Reefs," in Tran Vu, Dragon Hunt, trans. Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong (New York: Hyperion East, 1999), 1-21
29. Jacques Derrida, "Text Read at Althusser's Funeral," in Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, eds., The Work of Mourning (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 115
30. Derrida, "By Force of Mourning," ibid., 158-159
31. Quoted by Liisa Malkki, "Refugees and Exiles: From 'Refugee Studies to the National Order of Things," Annual Review of Anthropology 1995, 24, 517
32. Quoted by Pasqale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, "Introduction," in Derrida, ibid., 12
33. Viet Nguyen, "What Is the Political?" in Kent A. Ono, ed., Asian American Studies After Critical Mass (Maiden, Massachusetts: Black-well, 2005), 36