Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968 - Hardcover

Ca, Nha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253014174 ISBN 13: 9780253014177

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Title: Mourning Headband for Hue( An Account of the Battle for Hue Vietnam 1968) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: NhaCa <>Publisher: IndianaUniversityPress

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Review:

...[A] searing eyewitness account...It makes for an intimate―and disturbing―account of war at its most brutal told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom. Source: VVA Veteran

On the whole, scholars will find this memoir invaluable for understanding the American War in Vietnam as an internal civil war between the Vietnamese. Source: H-Net Reviews H-War

To this day, her harrowing account―of war casualties, searches and arrests, ideological purges―generates intense debates about accountability during war time. Source: Shelf Awareness

In her translation of A Mourning Headband for Hue, Olga Dror has traversed the terrain of contemporary Vietnamese literature, selected a wonderful gem, Giải Khăn Sô Cho Huế by Nhã Ca, and made it accessible to an English readership. . . . It is simultaneously an account of the experience of civilians trapped in a city under siege and a literary response to the brutalities of war by a leading poet and writer of South Vietnam. Source: Journal of Vietnamese Studies

Nha Ca relates countless moments of terror she and her extended family members suffered and shares stories told to her by others who faced similarly dire circumstances. It’s an intimate―and disturbing―account of war at its most brutal, told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom. Source: Publishers Weekly

The author’s narrative burns with firsthand accounts, her own and those of others who shared their stories, as they all were trapped in blasted houses, churches and makeshift shelters, wounded, starving, sick and overrun by the Communists and their squads of vengeful executioners...[A] searing first-person account of the misery of war visited upon her family, neighbors and countrymen, caught in senseless, chaotic horror...A visceral reminder of war’s intimate slaughter. Source: Kirkus Reviews

A work of great historical and literary value ideal for use in the classroom, Mourning Headband for Hue highlights overlooked voices and facets of the Vietnam War, meriting inclusion among the classics of wartime fiction. Source: Southeast Asian Studies

For Nhã Ca, remembrance is a portion of survival , recognizing those with no voice, no popular history to peddle.

Source: On the Seawall

Mourning Headband for Hue is Nhã Ca's searing condemnation of the brutality of war. Source: Michigan War Studies Review

This is a worthy addition to accounts that help readers understand the Vietnam War. . . . Highly recommended. Source: Choice

Review:

In this searing and unsparing memoir, Nha Ca bears witness to the mindless violence against civilians in war. Her civilian focus is important: in all of the writing on the Vietnam War, too little has been written on the civilian experience of conflict, a conflict that profoundly shaped the lives of millions of Vietnamese. It is important that we read about this violence, and through first-hand accounts: the further we move away from the Vietnam War, and the more we clinically dissect the war in terms of high politics and military strategy, the less we seem to remember that the war, on the ground, could be vicious, brutal, and devastating. A Mourning Headband for Hue is an anguished testimonial to that reality. Author: Shawn F. McHale Source: George Washington University and author of Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0253014174
• ISBN 13: 9780253014177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 378