The Viet Arcane
The Viet Arcane is a poetic vision of the Viet Nam War written in the early 1970's. It was inspired by a book by René Depestre, A Rainbow for the Christian West, in which a series of poems enacts an invasion by the Vodou Loas - or Haitian gods and goddesses - into the southern and most reactionary part of the United States. Hirschman imagines a similar invasion manifested by Vietnamese Mediums who follow the Dao Mau (the Worship of the Mother) religion. He strives to remind us that the war in Vietnam, although now history, was the major catastrophe of its time and must not be forgotten by future generations. ABOUT THE…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58790-270-3
- EAN: 9781587902703
- Produktnummer: 16495011
- Verlag: Regent Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 116 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D0.6 cm 134 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 134
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