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Frangos, Mike Classon. "Family Journeys: Refugee Histories in Vietnamese American Graphic Memoirs." Refugee Genres. Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge. Eds. Mike Classon Frangos and Sheila Ghose. New York [etc.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 45–66. Added by: joachim (7/21/23, 10:59 AM) Last edited by: joachim (7/21/23, 11:28 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09257-2_3 BibTeX citation key: Frangos2022 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "The Best We Could Do", "Vietnamerica", Bui. Thi, Migration, Tran. GB, USA, Vietnam Creators: Frangos, Ghose Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (New York [etc.]) Collection: Refugee Genres. Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge |
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This chapter examines how the graphic memoir has been used for refugee memory and the telling of refugee histories with a focus on two works by Vietnamese American comics artists: G.B. Tran’s Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey (2010) and Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do (2017). The form of the graphic memoir is put to use in the representation of individual and collective memories of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese American refugee migration to the United States. Materializing the persona of the artist-storyteller on the page through sequential narration and the juxtaposition of words and images, these texts employ the resources of the graphic memoir as a genre of life writing to document refugee histories in opposition to dominant representations.
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