Violent Memory and Generational Conflict in Andrew Lam's “Birds of Paradise” and Viet Thanh Nguyen's “The Immolation”

QUAN MANH HA is Professor of American Literature & Ethnic Studies at the University of Montana. His research fields focus on race and ethnicity in US literature, Asian American literature, Vietnam War literature, and literary translation. His publications have appeared in Ethnic Studies Review, Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies, Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, and Journal of the Short Story in English. He has published two books: Other Moons: Vietnamese Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath (Columbia University Press, 2020) and Luminous Nights: Pioneering Vietnamese Short Stories (La Frémillerie, France, 2021).

LINDSEY GALLAGHER is pursuing her undergraduate degree in English at the University of Montana and serves as a research assistant. She is interested in creative writing in both fiction and non-fiction forms.