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About this book
Kim Thúy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Québécois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author's novels have garnered literary prize recognition and have been translated from French into twenty-nine languages in nearly forty countries.
Touching Beauty is the first collection to focus solely on Thúy and her economical yet poetic storytelling style that expresses both the traumatic and the beautiful. Her writings, which manage to be culturally specific all while speaking to the fundamentals of the human condition, are examined within the context of what is known as migrant literature in Canada and are situated within the history of Vietnamese literature in French that grew out of the colonial period. Chapters explore food, identity, gender, and the role of writing in Thúy's life and work. Thúy herself contributes an unpublished poem and an extended interview that focus on her ongoing struggle to find, and write, beauty amidst war, migration, poverty, and loss.
Touching Beauty maps the themes that have, to date, animated a literary career of global relevance and enduring value and encourages a deeper appreciation of Thúy's writing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Miléna Santoro and Jack A. Yeager
- 1 Récits and Recettes Preserving and Recreating Culture and Identity through Writing and Cooking Jack A. Yeager
- 2 Keeping Secrets Kim Thúy’s Representations of Vietnamese Foodways Amy B. Reid
- 3 Poetics of Silence and the Act of Writing in Kim Thúy’s Narrative Works Nguyễn Giáng Hương
- 4 Epistolarity, Exchange, and Transdiasporic Identities Writing À toi Juliette M. Rogers
- 5 Post-migratory Identities Changing Masculinities in Kim Thúy’s Vi Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
- 6 Kim Thúy’s Many Mothers Miléna Santoro
- 7 Chasing BeautyAn Interview with Kim Thúy Miléna Santoro
- Afterword A Few Thoughts about Em Jack A. Yeager with Miléna Santoro
- Les mots au milieu des mots Kim Thúy
- Words within Words Kim Thúy, translated by Jack A. Yeager
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index