Nathalie Huỳnh Châu Nguyễn’s comprehensive Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora has just come out, with seven chapters from six ASERN colleagues:
-“Documentary film memorialisation of Vietnamese indentured labour in France and New Caledonia: Sighting history,” by Alexandra Kurmann and Tess Do
-“Linda Lê: Migrant Writer M/other,” by Leslie Barnes
-“The transdiasporic turn towards multiplicity in contemporary Francophone and American Việt Kiều literature,” by Alexandra Kurmann
-“Ghostly brothers and spectral relations in Vietnamese diasporic literature,” by Catherine H. Nguyen
-“Diasporic Vietnamese metafiction of the 1.5 and second generations,” by H. J. Tam
-“Reading for food in diasporic Vietnamese narrative cookbooks,” by Elizabeth M. Collins
The volume promises to be an excellent resource for researchers and students of the Vietnamese diaspora. Further details about the volume here.
(Image: Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do, 2017)
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