Here is the second of 3 posts written so far of about a dozen total to come on a book that already has won hard use in research and teaching, to judge by the wear on the copy I have borrowed from the University of North Carolina.
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud explains in this first bit how we owe this advance in knowledge to an immigrant from France, welcomed by California and the assembled hosts of Asian American and of Ethnic studies.
It's a great story of arrival, traditional among anthropologists. The author is not of our tribe but an affine in the clans of scholarship and science. She goes on to place her thought in those of others, then to drill down on 2 specific authors,
one of whom is my very good friend who has become a vocal anti-Semite. She noted, years ago now, that he is a voice of despair. I don't think so but just at the moment her work is helping me out.
We shall get to that. Right now, Isabelle's own tale. Please consider signing up for the visible audience for these Viet Nam letters, at no charge,
or patronizing all the readers at $50/year or subsidizing the whole variety show at $250/year. It's a tzedakah though not a mitzvot. Books and authors flourish in your attention.
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Here is the second of 3 posts written so far of about a dozen total to come on a book that already has won hard use in research and teaching, to judge by the wear on the copy I have borrowed from the University of North Carolina.
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud explains in this first bit how we owe this advance in knowledge to an immigrant from France, welcomed by California and the assembled hosts of Asian American and of Ethnic studies.
It's a great story of arrival, traditional among anthropologists. The author is not of our tribe but an affine in the clans of scholarship and science. She goes on to place her thought in those of others, then to drill down on 2 specific authors,
one of whom is my very good friend who has become a vocal anti-Semite. She noted, years ago now, that he is a voice of despair. I don't think so but just at the moment her work is helping me out.
We shall get to that. Right now, Isabelle's own tale. Please consider signing up for the visible audience for these Viet Nam letters, at no charge,
or patronizing all the readers at $50/year or subsidizing the whole variety show at $250/year. It's a tzedakah though not a mitzvot. Books and authors flourish in your attention.