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After Sorrow
After Sorrow spans an American woman's twenty-five years of experience in Viet Nam. It is the story of the ordinary Vietnamese whom Americans fought against but never had the chance to know. Lady Borton has come to know these people intimately from her work there, first in a Quaker Service rehabilitation center for civilian amputees in South Viet Nam (1969-71), and up to the present. After Sorrow centers on the last eight years, during which Lady made repeated visits to three villages, one a former Viet Cong base in the Mekong Delta of southern Viet Nam, another a rice-farming commune in the Red River Delta of northern Viet Nam, and the third, Ha Noi, which Vietnamese call their "largest vil...
Junk Pile!
Tucked away in her Appalachian hollow, Jamie Kay is too young for school,but she already knows that her Pa's automobile junkyard is magic. Others might see onlygenerators next to carburetors. Or rusty fenders in a corner. But Jamie sees somethingmore. Like her very own hubcap garden and her secret school bus?her bus doesn't havetires, but it surely can fly. What Jamie really wishes for, though, is a friend. Someone like the new boy in town,Robert Haines. But all Robert does is tease Jamie: "Hey, JUNK PILE!" The other kidsalways laugh. Even her own brother. How can she prove to Robert that there is magic in the junkyard? The only way sheknows how. Kimberly Bulcken Root's charming illustrations give warmth and spirit to LadyBorton's deceptively simple story of life in Appalachia. Junk Pile! is a book thatcelebrates the contagious power of imagination and the beauty that can be found in eventhe most unlikely of places.
Dismantling Glory
Dismantling Glory presents the most personal and powerful words ever written about the horrors of battle, by the very soldiers who put their lives on the line. Focusing on American and English poetry from World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War, Lorrie Goldensohn, a poet and pacifist, affirms that by and large, twentieth-century war poetry is fundamentally antiwar. She examines the changing nature of the war lyric and takes on the literary thinking of two countries separated by their common language. World War I poets such as Wilfred Owen emphasized the role of soldier as victim. By World War II, however, English and American poets, influenced by the leftist politics of W. H. Auden, t...
"Reading the Wind"
The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal, our need to make sense of Vietnam has prompted an outpouring of thinking and writing, from scholarly reappraisals of American foreign policy to highly personal accounts of participants. On the tenth anniversary of the final U. S. withdrawal, the Asia Society sponsored a conference on the Vietnam experience in American literature at which leading writers, critics, publishers, commentators, and academics wrestled with this phenomenon. Drawing on the synergy of this conference, Timothy J. Lomperis has produced an original work that focuses on the growing body of literature—including novels, personal accounts, and oral histories—which describes the experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam as well as the experience of veterans upon their return home.
My Heart Lies South
What happens when a thoroughly twentieth-century American lady journalist becomes a Mexican señora in nineteen-thirties' provincial Monterrey? She finds herself-sometimes hilariously-coping with servants, daily food allowances, bargaining, and dramatic Latin emotions. In this vivid autobiography, Newbery Award winning author Elizabeth Borton de Treviño brings to life her experiences with the culture and the faith of a civilization so close to the United States, but rarely appreciated or understood. This special young people's edition presents the humor and the insights of a remarkable woman and her contact with an era which is now past, but not to be forgotten.
Sensing the Enemy
Lady Borton volunteered to work at an American Friends Service committee hospital in Quang Ngai, a Vietnamese province and later on the tiny Malaysian island of Pulau Bidong where she helped 12,000 Vietnamese boat people.
Women on War
An international anthology of women's writings from antiquity to the present.
Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present : a Bilingual Anthology
The only bi-lingual anthology of Vietnamese Women's Poetry available anywhere.
Reunion
Both an intimate personal memoir and a richly detailed chronicle of one of the most tumultuous periods in American history, Reunion encompasses the tragic and terrifying events of the '60s.
The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World
This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women’s emancipation and national liberation. By using the lens of transnational political biography, the chapters capture the broader picture of these women’s lives, unpacking the links between the so-called public and private, the power structur...
