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The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cvisual artography of progress, Nguyen proposes ’the gift of freedom’ as the name for those forces that avow to reverence aliveness and beauty, and to govern an enlightened humanity, while producing new subjects and actions–such as a grateful refugee, or enduring war–in an age of liberal empire.
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The Mountains Sing
Enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North.
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The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
Ben Kiernan draws on more than five hundred interviews with Cambodian refugees, survivors, and defectors, as well as on a rich collection of previously unexplored archival material from the Pol Pot regime.
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Things We Lost to the Water
When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam.
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This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature
In the first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics.
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Vietnameasy: A Novel about Mothers, Daughters and Food
It tells the story of Kieu, a Vietnamese-American woman, and her quest for success on a TV cooking show, introducing the intoxicating allure of Vietnamese food to a general audience, interwoven with the haunting, sorrowful tale of her family and upbringing.
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