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1 de feb. de 2017 · “Black-Eyed Women” begins with the many unpleasant ways that one can become famous: sex scandal, being kidnapped and held prisoner for many years; surviving what should kill one. And after this list, we meet the narrator, whose profession is to ghostwrite autobiographies of people who have endured such things.
The Refugees: Black-Eyed Women Summary & Analysis. The ghostwriter describes how her clients come to her: they were often people who had escaped kidnapping and imprisonment for many years, or who had been involved in a sex scandal, or who had survived something typically fatal.
The title comes from how the ghostwriter admires the elderly, "black-eyed women" in Vietnam who told ghost stories to passersby.
8 de may. de 2023 · “Black-Eyed Women” by Viet Thanh Nguyen. There are so many ghosts in literature; many of them are in this story, in which a ghostwriter is visited by an actual ghost (ha), and realizes her own ghostliness, and the ghostliness of those around her.
7 de feb. de 2017 · • a woman who extorts money from the Vietnamese-American community in San José to fight communism in Vietnam (“War Years”) • a rather directionless ghostwriter who meets the literal ghost of the brother who died trying to protect her from pirates when they were escaping Vietnam (“Black-Eyed Woman”)
The ‘black-eyed women’ are illustrative of a haunting, unforgettable childhood: “Looking back, however, I could see that we had passed our youth in a haunted country.
In "Black-Eyed Women," a ghostwriter sees her deceased brother's ghost, forcing her to confront her survivor's guilt.
