diaCRITICS highlights art, literature, and stories from writers, artists, and culture-makers of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora, on and from all shores.
diaCRITICS highlights art, literature, and stories from writers, artists, and culture-makers of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora, on and from all shores.
Writing against the trope of the traumatised refugee family, Nguyễn argues that “[t]he apparent pervasiveness of the Vietnam War as the source of trauma in second-generation and diasporic cultural production elides the overwhelming presence of assimilation as a source of violence and trauma.”
His black pajamas creaseless
and slung across his protruding
collarbones
Brow slightly singed with sweat
Uncle Ho leisurely strolls
along Garden Grove with clasped
hands behind his back
He makes a...
Yang and Pham resist the narrative of shame for not inherently knowing one’s culture, and instead embrace the exciting and healing process of learning all about it.
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