Bibliography
Note: Bibliographic materials on Vietnamese culture and literature are in an awkward state. While there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in Vietnam studies, especially in the United States, many primary texts remain untranslated. In general, the social sciences are ahead of the humanities in Vietnamese studies. Most of the contemporary materials remain in ephemeral form in newspapers and literary periodicals. This bibliography reflects my own reading for background and includes as well those texts generally recognized as crucial to an understanding of Vietnamese literature. I have not, with one or two exceptions, included journal articles, nor have I usually listed books by individual contemporary Vietnamese poets that have not been translated into English.
Balaban, John. Locusts at the Edge of Summer. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 1997.
—-. (ed.) Vietnam: A Traveler’s Literary Companion. Philadelphia: Curbstone Press, 1995.
—-. (ed.) Ca Dao Viet Nam (bilingual). Toronto: Mosaic Press, 1982.
Baritz, Loren. Backfire: History of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam. New York: Morrow, 1985.
Bates, Milton J. The Wars We Took To Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Bowen, Kevin and Bruce Weigl, Editors. Writing Between the Lines: An Anthology on War & Its Social Consequences. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Bowen, Kevin; Nguyen Ba Chung; Bruce Weigl (eds.). Mountain River: Vietnamese poetry from the Wars: 1948-1993. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
Bui Diem, with David Chanoff. In the Jaws of History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Calley, William Laws, (with) John Sack. Lieutenant Calley: His Own Story. New York: Viking Press, 1971.
Caputo, Philip. Rumor of War. New York: Holt, Rhinehart Winston, 1977.
Ehrhart, W.D. To Those Who Have Gone Home Tired: New & Selected Poems. Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1984.
Elliott, Duong Van Mai. The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Franklin, H. Bruce, Editor. The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and Poems. New York: St. Martin’s Press (Bedford Books), 1996.
Hendrickson, The Living and the Dead. New York: Knopf, 1996.
Heinemann, Larry. Paco’s Story. New York: Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1979.
Huynh, Sanh Thong, Editor. An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems. Ed. Huynh Sanh Thong. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Jamison, Neil L. Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Karlin, Wayne, Minh Khue Le, and Vu Truong, Editors. This Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers. Curbstone Press, 1995.
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. New York: Viking, 1983.
Kim Nhat. Nhung Nha Van Tien Chien Hanoi Hom Nay (Pre-war Hanoi literary Figures Today). Saigon: Hoa Dang, 1972.
Klinkowitz, Jerome, and Somer John, Editors. Writing Under Fire: Stories of the Vietnam War. New York: Dell Publishing Co. (Delta Books), 1978.
Komunyakaa, Yusef. Dien Cai Dau. Wesleyan University Press, 1988.
Lesser, Stephen O. "Images of Vietnamese in American War Fiction." 1986: Vietnam Forum 7 (Winter-Spring): 202-03.
Marr, David G. Vietnamese Anticolonialism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
Melling, Philip H. Vietnam in American Literature. Twayne Publishers, 1990.
Nguyen Dinh Tuyen. Ngung Nha Tho Hom Nay (Contemporary Poets). Saigon: Nha Van Viet Nam, 1967.
Nguyen Du. The Tale of Kieu (Truyen Kieu). Translated and annotated by Huynh Sanh Thong with an essay on the historical background by Alexander Woodside. New York: Random House, 1973.
Nguyen Khac Vien and Huu Ngoc. Vietnamese Literature: Historical Background and Texts. Hanoi: Red River, (undated).
—-. Glimpses of Vietnamese Literature. Hanoi: Foreign Language Publishing House, 1977.
Nguyen Ngoc Bich. A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
Ngyuen, Quang Thieu. The Women Carry River Water. Cambridge: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Ninh, Bao. The Sorrow of War. Riverhead Books, 1996.
O’brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. New York: Delacorte, 1978.
—-. The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton / Seymour Lawrence, 1990.
O’Nan, Stewart. Names of the Dead. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
Parsons, John S., Dale K. Brown, and Nancy R. Kingsbury. Americans and Vietnamese: A Comparison of Values in Two Cultures. Arlington VA: Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1972.
Pham Duy. Dan Ca Viet Nam, Vietnamese Folksongs (bilingual). Saigon: Khai Tri, 1965.
Rivera, Oswald. Fire and Rain. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990.
Schaefer, John C. Vietnamese Perspectives on the War in Vietnam: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English. Lac Viet 17. New Have: Yale University Press, 1977.
Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie. New York: Vintage, 1989.
Schroder, Eric James, Editor. Vietnam, We’Ve All Been There. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1992.
Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. New York: Penguin, 1987.
Taylor, Keith Weller. The Birth of Vietnam. Berekley: University of California Press, 1983.
Terry, Wallace. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans. New York: Random House, 1984.
Thu, Huong Duong. Novel Without a Name. New York: Morrow, 1995.
Weigl, Bruce. Song of Napalm. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.
—-. Song of Napalm. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
—-. What Saves Us. Chicago: Triquartely Books, 1992.
Xuan Dieu. "Mot So Van De Dau Tranh Tu Tuong Tho" (Some Issues of Struggle Regarding Thought in Poetry). 1958: Van Nghe (10:28-70).
—-. (ed.) Tho Van Nguyen Khuyen (The Poetry of Nguyen Khuyen). Hanoi: Van Hoc, 1971.