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This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature

  • Vietnamese
  • April 4, 2023

In the first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics.

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We Were Meant to be a Gentle People

We Were Meant to be a Gentle People

  • Vietnamese
  • April 4, 2023

A memoir in text + image + song. In this unique work of literary multimedia, author/musician Dao Strom navigates the spaces between shores, mother and father, two cultures.

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Winter Phoenix

  • Vietnamese
  • April 4, 2023

A literature of testimonies in verse, Winter Phoenix is a collection of poems written loosely after the form of an international war crimes tribunal.

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Yellow Rain

  • Hmong
  • April 4, 2023

In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United States abandoned them at the end of its war in Vietnam, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos starting in the mid-1970s.

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You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else

You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else

  • Vietnamese
  • April 4, 2023

A bilingual English-Vietnamese poetry + visual art literature of fragments Learn more here.

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