Reviews

One does not have to know anything about riot grrrl and zine-making to enjoy Viv’s Silly Mango.

The Story Game provides an unconventional approach to memoir writing.

Ru celebrates a refugee family’s resilience in the aftermath of war, as well as the generosity of Canadian sponsors in the late 1970s.

Watching the films of “To Our Parents, With Love” feels a lot like stepping inside the homes that your Vietnamese friends grew up in.

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.”

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.