Strategic Use of Karma in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge
Strategic Use of Karma in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge
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Huang, Zhi and Li, Wei
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Basel: MDPI AG
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English
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Basel: MDPI AG
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Most critics focus on the pain and suffering of the first-generation Vietnamese immigrants depicted in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge. This paper explores how Cao strategically uses the philosophy of karma in Vietnamese Buddhism to provide a method for alleviating their suffering in this novel. It argues that she employs karma to investigate the origins o...
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Strategic Use of Karma in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge
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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_5536960ccf104d6ba80eeaa6880c9001
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_5536960ccf104d6ba80eeaa6880c9001
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2077-1444
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2077-1444
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10.3390/rel15040404
