Touching Beauty is the first collection of critical essays on the work of Vietnamese-born Quebec author Kim Thúy. It examines the themes that have animated a literary career of global relevance and enduring value and encourages a deeper appreciation...
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Touching Beauty is the first collection of critical essays on the work of Vietnamese-born Quebec author Kim Thúy. It examines the themes that have animated a literary career of global relevance and enduring value and encourages a deeper appreciation of her writing. Thúy contributes a previously unpublished poem and an extended interview. Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Récits and Recettes Preserving and Recreating Culture and Identity through Writing and Cooking -- 2 Keeping Secrets Kim Thúy's Representations of Vietnamese Foodways -- 3 Poetics of Silence and the Act of Writing in Kim Thúy's Narrative Works -- 4 Epistolarity, Exchange, and Transdiasporic Identities Writing À toi -- 5 Post-migratory Identities Changing Masculinities in Kim Thúy's Vi -- 6 Kim Thúy's Many Mothers -- 7 Chasing Beauty An Interview with Kim Thúy -- Afterword A Few Thoughts about Em -- Les mots au milieu des mots -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Verlag:
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal
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ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Touching Beauty is the first collection of critical essays on the work of Vietnamese-born Quebec author Kim Thúy. It examines the themes that have animated a literary career of global relevance and enduring value and encourages a deeper appreciation...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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Touching Beauty is the first collection of critical essays on the work of Vietnamese-born Quebec author Kim Thúy. It examines the themes that have animated a literary career of global relevance and enduring value and encourages a deeper appreciation of her writing. Thúy contributes a previously unpublished poem and an extended interview.
