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Descripción
The title of this debut collection, Nothing Follows, is reappropriated from a government document
establishing the beginning of a refugee family's time in the United States. At
every coordinate of their lives, the refugee family provides affidavits,
letters, and reams of paperwork as they work to beseech those in power to grant
them "family reunification" visas for those they had to leave behind in 1975
after the fall of Saigon. Nothing Follows
draws from the genres of memoir and poetry. Written from a young girl's
perspective, the center of this world is a military father, an absent mother,
sisters who come and go, broken brothers, and friends she meets in San José. With each place the book travels through--from Butler,
Pennsylvania, to San José, California--we see that racism, objectification, and
sexual violence permeate the realities of the narrator and those close to her.
In marking the journey, Lan Duong recreates the portraits of the girl's friends
and family and maps out refugee girlhoods. Spiked with violence, pleasure, and longing,
these refuges are questionable sanctuaries for those refugee girls who have
grown up during the 1980s in the aftermath of war.
establishing the beginning of a refugee family's time in the United States. At
every coordinate of their lives, the refugee family provides affidavits,
letters, and reams of paperwork as they work to beseech those in power to grant
them "family reunification" visas for those they had to leave behind in 1975
after the fall of Saigon. Nothing Follows
draws from the genres of memoir and poetry. Written from a young girl's
perspective, the center of this world is a military father, an absent mother,
sisters who come and go, broken brothers, and friends she meets in San José. With each place the book travels through--from Butler,
Pennsylvania, to San José, California--we see that racism, objectification, and
sexual violence permeate the realities of the narrator and those close to her.
In marking the journey, Lan Duong recreates the portraits of the girl's friends
and family and maps out refugee girlhoods. Spiked with violence, pleasure, and longing,
these refuges are questionable sanctuaries for those refugee girls who have
grown up during the 1980s in the aftermath of war.
Detalles
| Formato | Tapa suave |
| Número de Páginas | 96 |
| Lenguaje | Inglés |
| Editorial | Texas Tech University Press |
| Fecha de Publicación | 2023-02-24 |
| Dimensiones | 9.0" x 6.0" x 0.23" pulgadas |
| Serie | Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network |
| Letra Grande | No |
| Con Ilustraciones | No |
| Temas | Asiático - General, Asiático - General, Familia |
Acerca del Autor
Duong, Lan P.
Lan P. Duong is Associate Professor in Cinema & MediaStudies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is the
author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese
Feminism (Temple University Press, 2012). Duong's creative works have
appeared in Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, Bold
Words: Asian American Writing to Span the Centuries, Tilting the
Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing, Frontiers: A Journal of
Women's Studies, and Crab Orchard Review. She lives in Pasadena,
California.
Garantía & Otros
| Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
| Peso: | 0.15 kg |
| SKU: | 9781682831847 |
| Publicado en Unimart.com: | 10/01/24 |
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