Subarno Chattarji

The Distant Shores of Freedom analyses literary works in English written by Vietnamese refugees in the US. Fiction and memoirs by Vietnamese Americans recover stories and memories that are often different from mainstream American ones and that difference enables readers to think of the US war in Vietnam from perspectives that are missing in mainstream representations. Dwelling not only on the war and its aftermaths, Vietnamese American writings also ponder over the existential issues of exile; the idea of home; the pain of marginality and racism; the question of community formation within the US; and the complexity of diasporic lives. Subarno Chattarji raises critical questions such as who gets to speak and write, and to what ends and purposes? Who reads Vietnamese American writings and how can we account for these publications in the US over a period of time? What can and cannot be written or spoken? What is remembered and what is silenced? What traumas and memories are articulated? These questions point towards a larger context of diaspora studies as well as 'the rituals of cultural memory' that complicate our understanding of the Vietnam War and its aftermaths.

Vietnamese American Memoirs and Fiction

The Distant Shores of Freedom

Sevanti Ninan

This book offers a collection of the best journalistic and analytical pieces published in THE HOOT website (www.thehoot.org) over the last decade. It provides insights into media practice under wide-ranging heads, including terror and conflict, caste and development reporting, media ethics and practices, gendered media, the media business, and related issues. It also serves as a record of the seminal debates in and about media during 2001-11 across all forms and media, focusing on the entire South Asian region. An introduction by the volume editors provides a context to the various themes covered in the Reader.

Media Practice in Twenty-first Century India

THE HOOT Reader

Suman Gupta

Tapan Basu

Contributed articles presented earlier in an international workshop initiated at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India, 26-28 March, 2002.

Contemporary Discourses and Texts

India in the Age of Globalization

Associate Professor Department of English Subarno Chattarji

Memories of a Lost War is a study of poetry written primarily by Vietnam veterans during and after the war. Drawing on a wealth of material often published in small presses and journals, the book highlights the horrors of war and the continuing traumas of veterans in a post-Vietnam America that has largely rewritten the Vietnam war to suit dominant national ideologies. The analysis dwells on poems of solidarity wherein American veterans reach out to their former enemy. The concluding chapter on Vietnamese poems in translation extends the circle of memory and trauma. In its inclusion of Vietnam.

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