Subjecting Sentences: Syntax and Power in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong’s semi-autobiographical novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous opens as a letter to the narrator, Little Dog’s, mother—it is a letter she’ll never be able to read, as she is illiterate in both her Vietnamese mother tongue and the limited English she has learned following her immigration...
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Columbia University Libraries
2022-01-01
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| Series: | Meliora |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/meliora/article/view/8725 |