Crossing the Street in Hanoi

Teaching and Learning about Vietnam

By (author) Carol Wilder

Publication date:

15 August 2013

Publisher

Intellect Books

Dimensions:

229x178mm
7x9"

ISBN-13: 9781841507354

This is a study of media and cultural artifacts that constitute the remembrance of a tragic war as reflected in the stories of eight people who lived it. Using memoir, history and criticism, Crossing the Street in Hanoi is based on scholarly research, teaching and writing as well as extensive personal journals, interviews and exclusive primary source material. Each chapter uses a human story to frame an exploration in media and cultural criticism. What weaves these different threads into a whole cloth are the stories of the Vietnam War and the long shadow it casts over American and Vietnamese cultures.

Foreword by William Logan Introduction Chapter 1: The War That Won’t Die Chapter 2: Hoa Lo Prison Museum: 'The Fury Burning Within' Chapter 3: Bac Ho: 'Casting Pearls before Swine' Chapter 4: Life on Vietnam: 'A Glory Preserved in a Wilderness Valley' Chapter 5: Reading Graham Greene: A Promise to the Dead Chapter 6: Vietnam Love Songs: 'Rode Hard and Put Away Wet' Chapter 7: Reinventing Rambo: Flooding with Love for the Kid Chapter 8: Murder on May 4th: The Case of the Missing Mob Chapter 9: Long Bien Story: Giving and Taking Away (with Douglas Jardine) Afterword: A Note on Theory

'Wilder performs a magic trick by both charming a reader with her evocations of today's vibrant Vietnam and jarring us with the torments of what she calls "the undead war"'