S. Dudas, Danielle E. Price, M. West, Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Carrie A. Hintz, Holly Blackford Humes, Kara K. Keeling, Carl F. Miller, Mary Moran, K. Zarins, S. Day, Sarah Selden, S. Falkenberg, T. Michals, Fizza Fatima
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Abstract:Thanhha Lai's 2011 semi-autobiographical children's novel-in-verse, Inside Out and Back Again both exemplifies and complicates the Asian American immigrant narrative in its depiction of a South Vietnamese family's flight to the United States after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Composed with prosodies hyper-aware of sonic quality, linguistic tension between American English and Vietnamese, and an emotional register attuned to Lai's memory of childhood reactions to an antagonistic school environment and family trauma, Inside Out and Back Again embodies in children's poetry characteristics that critics of the broader canon of Asian American poetry identify as significant to the work of establishing a respected and politically active Asian American poetics.
摘要:莱Thanhha Lai于2011年出版的半自传体儿童诗歌小说《头脑特工队与归来》(Inside Out and Back Again),通过描述一个南越家庭在1975年西贡陷落后逃往美国的故事,既体现了亚裔美国移民的叙事,也使其更加复杂。《翻来覆去》的韵律高度关注音质,美式英语和越南语之间的语言张力,以及与赖的童年记忆对敌对的学校环境和家庭创伤的反应相协调的情感记录,体现了儿童诗歌的特征,这些特征被批评更广泛的亚裔美国诗歌经典的人认为对建立受人尊敬和政治活跃的亚裔美国诗学具有重要意义。