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A literary circle or coterie, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, is a "small group of writers (and others) bound together more by friendship and habitual association than by a common literary cause or style that might unite a school or movement. The term often has pejorative connotations of exclusive cliquishness".
A literature circle is equivalent for young people of an adult book club, but with greater structure, expectation and rigor. The aim is to encourage thoughtful discussion and a love of reading in young people. The intent of literature circles is "to allow students to practice and develop the skills and strategies of good readers" (DaLie, 2001).
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The Tự Lực văn đoàn was an influential literary collective founded in 1932-1933 by Nhất Linh and Khái Hưng.They were one of the most significant political and literary movements in twentieth-century Vietnam and published significantly via their two journals, Phong Hóa (Mores, 1932–1936) and Ngày Nay (Today, 1936–1940, 1945) as well as their own publishing house (Đời Nay).
There he is regarded "the typical figure of Post-Doi Moi Literature", [1] and considered "the best humourist ever" and even an "awesomely brilliant genius". [1] Unfortunately, it was repeatedly said that leading governmental departments in Vietnam instructed the "state-controlled" literary circle that his works were "harmful".
Unlike written literature, early oral literature was composed in Vietnamese and is still accessible to ordinary Vietnamese today. Vietnamese folk literature is an intermingling of many forms. It is not only an oral tradition, but a mixing of three media: hidden (only retained in the memory of folk authors), fixed (written), and shown (performed).
Current and past writing systems for Vietnamese in the Vietnamese alphabet and in chữ Hán Nôm. Spoken and written Vietnamese today uses the Latin script-based Vietnamese alphabet to represent native Vietnamese words (thuần Việt), Vietnamese words which are of Chinese origin (Hán-Việt, or Sino-Vietnamese), and other foreign loanwords.
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [a]) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California .