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Nam Le - Love and Honor and Pity andPride and Compassion and Sacrifice
What is it? - answerNam Le reflects on the processes and purposes of writing short
fiction via the persona's involvement in an Iowa-based writing workshop; a semi-
fictionalised account that intertwines with the author's Vietnamese-Australian father
visiting in American.
The complex and troubled relationship between the protagonist and his father gradually
takes centre-stage as the author wrestles with the implications of writing an 'ethnic' story
about his own cultural past.
what is the motif? - answer'He had destroyed himself... in my name'.
context - answerNam Le is an Australian writer of Vietnamese descent.
Has recieved numerous awards
first published in 2008
combined elements of autobiography, fiction and metafiction, the story presents an
examination of identity, familial relationships and the narrator's Vietnamese heritage.
the title is an intertextual reference to... - answerWilliam Faulkner's 1949 Nobel Prize
acceptance speech.
'he used to wake me, when i was young, by standing over me and smacking my cheeks
lightly. I hated it-- the wetness, the sourness of his hands.' - answerLe expresses not
only his childhood memories, but also his feelings about them, hatred is a very strong
emotional response.
his negative emotions are based on his father's hands.
'wetness, sourness' tactile and gustatory imagery
'I found myself back... within my fingers chasing the metronome, I realised I was
massaging my knuckles' - answer- time shift, memories.
- metaphor of fingers chasing the external timer, keeping pace with expectations.
- verb creates image linking his current state of uncomfortableness with his childhood,
implication is that he was taught piano via punishment
list vietnamese proverbs - answer'a day lived, a sea of knowledge earned.'
'the captive buffalo hates the free buffalo.'
'how far does an empty stomach drag you.'
'a scholar is a blessing for all his relatives.'
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