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    Vietnamese literature includes both oral folk literature and written works. The three main types are Truyen (traditional oral literature), Han-Viet (literature written in classical Chinese), and Quoc Am (modern literature written in Vietnamese script). Well-known Vietnamese authors wrote in the Chu Nom script developed in the 10th century or the modern Quoc Ngu script from the 17th century. Common themes in Vietnamese literature include Oriental philosophy, nature, society, humanity, courage, and struggles with poverty. The genres include folk literature, legends, myths, and Cadao folk poems.

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    Vietnamese literature includes both oral folk literature and written works. The three main types are Truyen (traditional oral literature), Han-Viet (literature written in classical Chinese), and Quoc Am (modern literature written in Vietnamese script). Well-known Vietnamese authors wrote in the Chu Nom script developed in the 10th century or the modern Quoc Ngu script from the 17th century. Common themes in Vietnamese literature include Oriental philosophy, nature, society, humanity, courage, and struggles with poverty. The genres include folk literature, legends, myths, and Cadao folk poems.

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    Vietnamese literature includes both oral folk literature and written works. The three main types are Truyen (traditional oral literature), Han-Viet (literature written in classical Chinese), and Quoc Am (modern literature written in Vietnamese script). Well-known Vietnamese authors wrote in the Chu Nom script developed in the 10th century or the modern Quoc Ngu script from the 17th century. Common themes in Vietnamese literature include Oriental philosophy, nature, society, humanity, courage, and struggles with poverty. The genres include folk literature, legends, myths, and Cadao folk poems.

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    Vietnamese literature includes both oral folk literature and written works. The three main types are Truyen (traditional oral literature), Han-Viet (literature written in classical Chinese), and Quoc Am (modern literature written in Vietnamese script). Well-known Vietnamese authors wrote in the Chu Nom script developed in the 10th century or the modern Quoc Ngu script from the 17th century. Common themes in Vietnamese literature include Oriental philosophy, nature, society, humanity, courage, and struggles with poverty. The genres include folk literature, legends, myths, and Cadao folk poems.

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    The passage provides an overview of Vietnamese literature including its history and development over time as well as key genres, themes and influential authors.

    The three main types of Vietnamese literature mentioned are Truyen (traditional oral literature), Han-Viet (Chinese-Vietnamese literature), and Quoc Am (modern literature).

    Chũ nǒm script was created around the 10th century to allow writers to compose in Vietnamese using modified Chinese characters.

    THEMES,GENRES AND FAMOUS

    WRITERS OF VIETNAMESE
    LITERATURES

    Adebayo, Marvelous
    Buenafe, Christine Joy
    Catoy, Cristela Marie
    Vietnam literature is a literature, both oral and
    written, created largely by Vietnamese speaking
    people.
    Although Francophone Vietnamese and English
    speaking Vietnamese authors in Australia and United
    States are counted by many critics as part of the
    national tradition.
    For much of its history, Vietnam was dominated
    by China and as a result, much of the written work
    during this period was in Classical Chinese.
    Literature of Vietnam

    • The literary arts, especially poetry, have traditionally been


    highly prized in Vietnam
    • The three main types of Vietnamese literature
    • Truyen - traditional oral literature
    • Han-Viet - chinese-vietnames literature
    • Quoc Am - modern literature or anything written in the
    romanticized quǒc ngũ alphabet
    Chũ nǒm, created around the 10th
    century, allowed the writers to composed
    in Vietnamese using modified Chinese
    characters.
    While the quǒc ngũ script was
    created in the 17th century, it did not
    became popular outside of missionary
    groups until the early 20th century.
    Vietnamese literature was
    developed at an early date with its two
    major components: FOLK
    LITERATURE and WRITTEN
    LITERATURE. Despite the harsh trials
    of history in the form of repeated foreign
    invasions, its own characteristics
    remains.
    Folk Literature
    Vietnamese folk literature came into being
    very early and had a profound effect on the
    spiritual life of the Viet's. The folk literature
    always praised beauty, humanism and the
    love of goodness, and contributed to the
    formation of national sense.
    WRITTEN LITERATURE

    From the 10th century, literary works were


    written in Han (classical Chinese) and chũ
    nǒm. But since the 16th century, chũ nǒm
    became increasingly popular, and held a prim
    position by the early 18th century.
    Well known works written in chũ
    nǒm included Chinh Phu Ngam by
    female poet Doan Thi Diem, the Kieu
    story by Nguyen Du, and chũ nǒm
    poems of female poet Ho Xuan Huong.
    Themes
    • Oriental philosophy- system that harmonizes the natural
    and social world that includes humanity in the center
    uniting with nature and society
    • Discovered not only the three directions of tome (past,
    present, & future) but also a 4th direction the direction of
    spiritual life.
    • Initiation is the rite of passage that every adolescent boy
    must pass through to become a man.
    • Courage and Guilt
    • Physical and Emotional Burdens
    This philosophy is also influences by the following:

    Buddhism Confucianism
    Taoism Animism
    • Nature and society and humanity unite
    with one another in a harmony of
    beauty. The link of human generations
    and thousands of living creatures
    never ends. By Phuc Cu De,1999
    • NONE turns HAVE-NONE means endless,
    boundless, immense, infinite, numberless in
    moving and changing movements and the
    developing process of everything. HAVE is not
    simply possessive in meaning but it means the
    limitation of changing and the developing process
    of everything (Phuc Cu De, 2009).
    Other themes

    • Loyalty
    • Wheels of Fortune
    • Fortune Telling
    • Karma, Justice, Responsibility and Retribution
    • Nature, Society, and Humanity unite with one another in a
    harmony of beauty
    • Sadness of life
    • Poignancy of love relationship
    • Struggle between humanity and poverty
    • Strength in human character
    • River is life and society
    • The will to love
    • Reference to nature
    GENRE

    – Folk Literature
    – Legends
    – Myths
    – Cadao
    FOLK LITERATURE
    – is an intermingling of many forms. It is not only an oral
    tradition but a mixing of three media.

    • HIDDEN- only retained in the memory of folk authors


    • FIXED- written
    • SHOWN- performed.
    MYTHS
     consists of stories about supernatural beings,
    heroes, creator gods, and reflect the viewpoint
    of ancient people upon human life.
     consists of creator stories, stories about their
    origins (Lac Long Quan, Au Co), culture
    heroes (Son Tinh or Mountain Spirit: Thuy Tinh
    or Water Spirit)
    CADAO
     are folk poems
     The term CADAO is derived from a line in
    the WEI WIND section of the Chinese
    Classic Folk Poetry Anthology, Shih-Ching
    (Book of Odes), can be loosely translated
    as “unaccompanied song”.
    8 Famous Writers
    of Vietnam Literatures
    and Their Writings.
    Amy Quan Barry

    • Saigon-born American poet, novelist,


    and professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison.
    Works:
    • Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong
    by Ho Xuan Huong, translated by John
    Balaban (Poetry, Vietnam, Classic)*
    • The Book of Salt
    by Monique Truong (Novel, US, Contemporary)*
    • The Boat by Nam Le
    (Short stories, Australia, Contemporary).
    Andrew Lam
    • Vietnamese-American writer at the Huffington Post, editor of New America Media, author of Birds of
    Paradise Lost, and PEN/Open Book Award winner.
    Works:
    • Night Sky with Exit Wounds
    by Ocean Vuong (Poetry, US, Contemporary)
    • Monkey Bridge
    by Lan Cao (Novel, US, Contemporary)
    • The Best We Could Do
    by Thi Bui (Graphic memoir, US, Contemporary)
    • Enfer rouge mon amour
    • by Lucien Trong (Novel, France, Contemporary)
    • Riz Noir by Anna Moï (Novel, France, Contemporary)
    • Such A Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961–63
    by Marcelino Truong,
    translated by David Homel (Graphic memoir, France, Contemporary)
    • Hanoi-based Vietnamese poet, translator, and former teacher and
    journalist.
    Works:
    • The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, translated by Phan Thanh Hao,
    edited by Frank Palmos (Novel, Vietnam, Contemporary)*
    • Behind the Red Mist by Ho Anh Thai, translated by Nguyen Qui
    Duc, edited by Wayne Karlin (Short
    story, Vietnam, Contemporary)*
    • Crossing The River by Nguyen Huy Thiep, translated and edited
    by Dana Sachs and Nguyen Nguyet Cam (Short
    stories, Vietnam, Contemporary)
    • No Man’s Land by Duong Thu Huong, translated by Nina
    McPherson and Phan Huy Duong (Novel, Vietnam, Contemporary)
    • Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung, translated by Peter Zinoman and
    Nguyen Nguyet Cam (Novel, Vietnam, Contemporary)
    • Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry,
    edited by Paul Hoover and Nguyen
    Do (Poetry, Vietnam, Contemporary) Hoang Hung
    • Distant Road—Selected Poems of Nguyen Duy by Nguyen Duy,
    translated by Ba Chung Nguyen and Kevin
    Bowen (Poetry, Vietnam, Contemporary)
    Lan Cao
    • Vietnamese-American author of the
    novel Monkey Bridge, and professor of law
    at the Chapman University School of Law.
    Works:
    • Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu
    Huong, translated by Nina McPherson
    and Phan Huy
    Duong (Novel, Vietnam, Contemporary)*
    • The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh
    Nguyen (Novel, US, Contemporary)
    • The Lotus and the Storm by Lan
    Cao (Novel, US, Contemporary)
    Monique Truong
    • Vietnamese-American author of the award-winning novel The
    Book of Salt, essayist, and intellectual property attorney.
    Works:
    • Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese
    Family by Nguyen Qui Duc (Memoir, US, Contemporary)*
    • Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey by GB Tran (Graphic
    memoir, US, Contemporary)*
    • The Book of Perceptions by Truong Tran, photographs by
    Chung Chuong Hoang (Poetry, US, Contemporary)
    • Ru by Kim Thuy, translated by Sheila
    Fischman (Novel, Canada, Contemporary)
    • Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha
    Lai (Novel, US, Contemporary)
    • In the Mynah Bird’s Own Words by Barbara
    Tran (Poetry, US, Contemporary)
    • Slander by Linda Le, translated by Esther
    Allen (Novel, France, Contemporary)
    Susan Bayly
    • Researcher on Vietnamese culture,
    and professor at the University of
    Cambridge.
    Works:
    • The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du,
    translated by Huynh Sanh
    Thong (Poetry, Vietnam, Classic)*
    • Selected writings of Ho Chi
    Minh (Anthology, Vietnam, Contempor
    ary)
    Vu Tran
    • Vietnamese-American author of Dragonfish:
    A Novel.
    Works:
    • Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X.
    Pham (Biography, US, Contemporary)*
    • The Gangster We Are All Looking For by
    Le Thi Diem
    Thuy (Novel, US, Contemporary)*
    Wayne Karlin
    • American author, editor of the Voices from Vietnam series, and
    professor at the College of Southern Maryland.
    Works:
    • Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Lam (Short
    stories, US, Contemporary)*
    • The Stars, the Earth, the River by Le Minh Khue, translated by
    Dana Sachs and Bac Hoai Tran (Short
    stories, Vietnam, Contemporary)
    • A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America by
    Quang X. Pham (Memoir, US, Contemporary)
    • Red Thread by Teresa Mei Chuc (Poetry, US, Contemporary)
    • Against the Flood by Ma Van Khang, translated by Phan
    Thanh Hao, and Wayne Karlin (Novel, Vietnam, Contemporary)
    Other works of Wayne Karlin

    • When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly


    Hayslip (Memoir, US, Contemporary)
    • The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese
    and American Writers, edited by Wayne Karlin, Le Minh Khue,
    and Truong Vu (Anthology, Contemporary)
    • Lament of the Soldier’s Wife by Dang Tran Con and Doan Thi
    Diem, translated by Rewi Alley (Poetry, Vietnam, Classic)
    • The Cemetery of Chua Village and Other Stories by Doan Le,
    translated by Rosemary Nguyen, Duong Tuong, and Wayne
    Karlin (Short story, Vietnam, Contemporary)
    THANK YOU
    Reference

    • https://www.slideshare.net/elly_gaa/vietnamese-literature
    • https://thevietnamwarin2015.weebly.com/themes.html

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