Landbridge

Landbridge

Life in Fragments

  • Auteur: Troeung, Y-Dang
  • Éditeur: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9781478026884
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781478060116
  • Lieu de publication:  Durham , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2024
  • Mois : Octobre
  • Pages: 313
  • Langue: Anglais
In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that Canada agreed to admit. Their landing was widely documented in newspapers, with photographs of the prime minister shaking Troeung’s father’s hand and patting baby Y-Dang’s head. Troeung became a literal poster child for the benevolence of the Canadian refugee project. She returns to this moment forty years later in her arresting memoir Landbridge, where she explores the tension between that public narrative of happy “arrival,” and the multiple, often hidden truths of what happened to her family. In precise, beautiful prose, Troeung moves back and forth in time to tell stories about her parents and two brothers who lived through the Cambodian genocide, about the lives of her grandparents and extended family, about her own childhood in the refugee camps and in rural Ontario, and eventually about her young son’s illness and her own diagnosis with a terminal disease. Throughout this brilliant and astonishing book, Troeung looks with bracing clarity at refugee existence and dares to imagine a better future, with love.
  • Cover
  • Preface
  • Land Bridge
  • Portrait
  • Transport
  • Currency
  • Hunger
  • Dearest Kai (Kai-Bear, Puppy Finger, Nugget Baby, Nugs)
  • Border
  • Stories
  • Wounding
  • BIg Sounds
  • Collapse
  • Black Holes
  • Remembrance
  • Dearest Kai
  • Country
  • Labour
  • Produce
  • Home
  • Bat
  • Easter Epic
  • Worms
  • Diaspora
  • Frame
  • Old Days
  • Walking
  • Kamleang Chet
  • Baksbat
  • Hometown
  • Wandering Soul
  • Lightening
  • Fearless
  • Dearest Kai
  • Nice
  • Sampeah
  • Duty
  • Showpiece
  • Slow
  • Viewings
  • The Word
  • Commemoration
  • Swirl
  • First and Last
  • Dearest Kai
  • Return
  • Pray
  • Disappeared
  • Shot
  • Smile
  • App
  • Dearest Kai
  • Anti-Travel
  • Shame
  • Refuge
  • Eat
  • Panorama
  • Red
  • Tours
  • Utopia
  • Circuit
  • Rodeo
  • Student
  • Occupy
  • Home Work
  • Corrections
  • Excursion
  • Letter
  • Dearest Kai
  • Confer
  • Program
  • Oun
  • Noise
  • Verveine
  • Trial
  • Open
  • Exhibit
  • Dearest Kai
  • Branch
  • Rambo
  • Beta
  • Bus
  • Torch
  • Pigeon
  • Dearest Kai
  • Pass
  • Ringers
  • Killing Fields
  • Stand
  • Tree
  • Door
  • Repeat
  • Boneyards
  • Art
  • Cat
  • Mine
  • Bloom
  • Pain
  • Dearest Kai
  • Montreal Uncle
  • Texas Uncle
  • Cousin
  • Deport
  • Ring
  • Dearest Kai
  • Mute
  • Kapok
  • Pods
  • Abundance
  • Speak
  • Pronounce
  • Dearest Kai
  • Landbridge
  • Wave
  • Broken Seed
  • Land
  • Un Done
  • Debt
  • Scape
  • Patch
  • Dearest Kai
  • In Memory
  • Citations and Credits
  • Acknowledgements

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