Nothing Follows - Couverture souple

Duong, Lan P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1682831841 ISBN 13 : 9781682831847

Editeur : Texas A & M University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lan P. Duong is Associate Professor in Cinema & Media
Studies 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texas A & M University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1682831841
• ISBN 13: 9781682831847
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible