WTXT is in Fayette, Alabama. KTXT is a better choice – the student station at Texas Tech University in Lubbock – the home of the Vietnam Center and Archive. (Plus all stations west of the Mississippi have call letters starting with K). http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ktxt-fm/
But I guess Textual Healing has cast its die with WTXT.
The Sinitic / non-Sinitic binary is at the heart of just about every issue in Vietnam. Jamieson possibly over-simplied this as yin yang / âm dương but it’s like Vietnam is this place that’s easy going and good times (inter-species relations? sure!) with this over riding need for propriety and form. And the latter side is able to review and censor every word that’s published.
I think you’ve pointed out that historical documents serve the needs of those who create them – and the changing histories, legends, myths you describe obviously related to the beliefs and anxieties of those in power at the time. I imagine that at less settled times propriety becomes even more important.
I happened to look up the word huyền thoại today (for different reasons) in the Từ điển Bách khoa Việt Nam where it’s defined as a “chuyện huyễn hoặc, thần bí, do trí tưởng tượng hư cấu. HT thường kể về các vị thần linh, các nhân vật siêu phàm, những hành động kì vĩ, gắn ít nhiều với lịch sử, phần lớn không có cơ sở thực tế. Vd. chuyện Lạc Long Quân lấy nàng Âu Cơ đẻ ra trăm trứng.”
So the story is the defining example of myth. But it can connect to history (gắn ít nhiều với lịch sử). At what point does it go over to the side of never-happened-but-means-something instead of something-like-this-could-have-happened?
WTXT is in Fayette, Alabama. KTXT is a better choice – the student station at Texas Tech University in Lubbock – the home of the Vietnam Center and Archive. (Plus all stations west of the Mississippi have call letters starting with K). http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ktxt-fm/
But I guess Textual Healing has cast its die with WTXT.
The Sinitic / non-Sinitic binary is at the heart of just about every issue in Vietnam. Jamieson possibly over-simplied this as yin yang / âm dương but it’s like Vietnam is this place that’s easy going and good times (inter-species relations? sure!) with this over riding need for propriety and form. And the latter side is able to review and censor every word that’s published.
I think you’ve pointed out that historical documents serve the needs of those who create them – and the changing histories, legends, myths you describe obviously related to the beliefs and anxieties of those in power at the time. I imagine that at less settled times propriety becomes even more important.
I happened to look up the word huyền thoại today (for different reasons) in the Từ điển Bách khoa Việt Nam where it’s defined as a “chuyện huyễn hoặc, thần bí, do trí tưởng tượng hư cấu. HT thường kể về các vị thần linh, các nhân vật siêu phàm, những hành động kì vĩ, gắn ít nhiều với lịch sử, phần lớn không có cơ sở thực tế. Vd. chuyện Lạc Long Quân lấy nàng Âu Cơ đẻ ra trăm trứng.”
So the story is the defining example of myth. But it can connect to history (gắn ít nhiều với lịch sử). At what point does it go over to the side of never-happened-but-means-something instead of something-like-this-could-have-happened?
Tây Bụi ơi! Thanks for the comment and you blog post!! It set me on a day of thinking and exploring which really helped me a lot!!