Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy

Kim Thúy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of...
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Author: Miléna Santoro
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Language: English
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Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy by Santoro, Miléna

Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy

$135.73

Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy

$135.73
Author: Miléna Santoro
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 Thúy herself contributes an unpublished poem and an extended interview that focus on her ongoing struggle to find, and write, beauty amidst war, migration, poverty, and loss.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.

Author: Miléna Santoro
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 06/15/2023
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780228017677

About the Author
Miléna Santoro is professor at Georgetown University.Jack A. Yeager is professor emeritus at Louisiana State University.

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