Hearts of Sorrow

by Freeman, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780804718905
• ISBN10: 0804718903
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-12-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

The first-person narratives in this book provide a glimpse into the personal lives of fourteen Vietnamese-Americans who were devastated by war and the refugee experience but who were able to create new lives in a new cultural environment.

Table of Contents

PART I Hearts of Sorrow
Introduction	3	(4)
The Vietnamese Refugee Experience	7	(14)
Creating Hearts of Sorrow	21	(10)
PART II Vietnam: Childhood, Youth, and Character
Introduction	27	(4)
I Never Forget an Insult: 1906--1941	31	(21)
Youngest Daughter: 1914--1934	52	(16)
I Grew Up Without Love: 1925--1937	68	(7)
Make Friends with Equals: 1927--1940	75	(4)
Predestined for the Religious Life: 1932--1952	79	(8)
Growing Up in a Catholic Village: 1942--1966	87	(4)
Childhood in North and South Vietnam: 1946--1968	91	(9)
Not to Beat Is Not to Love: 1963--1979	100	(13)
PART III Vietnam: Sorrows of War
Introduction	111	(2)
Famine: 1945	113	(11)
Jailed by the French: 1945--1948	124	(12)
The Execution of My Husband: 1946	136	(6)
Viet Minh and French: 1945--1956	142	(15)
Memories of Communist Hanoi: 1945--1966	157	(12)
Viet Cong and Americans: 1956--1969	169	(12)
War with the Americans and Life After: 1965--1980	181	(8)
The Death Toll in My Family: 1945--1975	189	(12)
PART IV Vietnam: Sorrows of Liberation
Introduction	199	(2)
Saigon Falls: 1975	201	(8)
Prisoner Without Trial: 1975--1976	209	(15)
Sent North to Die: 1976--1979	224	(19)
Harshest Incarceration: 1979--1981	243	(12)
Ten Indochinese Days: 1975--1978	255	(16)
Buddhism Under Communism: 1975--1978	271	(4)
Escape from Ban Me Thuot: 1975--1978	275	(4)
Communist Intimidation of Schoolboys: 1975--1979	279	(4)
Visits to a Reeducation Camp: 1975--1981	283	(10)
PART V Flight to Freedom
Introduction	291	(2)
Despair in a Refugee Camp: 1975	293	(10)
Better to Die at Sea Than to Remain: 1975--1976	303	(10)
People at Their Worst: 1978--1979	313	(7)
Perilous Journey: 1979	320	(16)
Joseph D. Gosha
Bien Hoa Jail: 1981	336	(7)
Brutality in a Thai Refugee Camp: 1982	343	(14)
PART VI America: Heartache Beneath Success
Introduction	353	(4)
I Will Die Lonely and Abandoned: 1975--1985	357	(12)
I Cannot Learn English: 1975--1984	369	(7)
We Cannot Walk in Our Neighborhood: 1976--1982	376	(6)
God Made Me a Hard--Working Man: 1978--1983	382	(9)
They Tell Me Their Troubles: 1979--1984	391	(18)
I Want to Live Without Trouble: 1980--1984	409	(5)
Victim of a Youth Gang Stabbing: 1981--1982	414	(10)
My Daughter Neglects Me: 1984	424	(5)
PART VII Interpretations
Implications for Biography	429	(12)
Bibliography	441