The displaced Refugee writers on refugee lives
Book - 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. Poignant and insightful, this collection of essays reveals moments of uncertainty, resilience int he face of trauma, and a reimagining of identity. The Displaced is a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge. -- Adapted from book jacket.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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New York :
Abrams Press
2018.
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781419729485
- Introduction
- Last, First, Middle
- Common Story
- Flesh and Sand
- Perspective and What Gets Lost
- How Succulent Food Defeated Trump's Wall Before It Has Been Built
- Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa
- The Parent Who Stays
- To Walk in Their Shoes
- God's Fate
- Second Country
- 13 Ways of Being an Immigrant
- Refugees and Exiles
- This Is What the Journey Does
- The Ungrateful Refugee
- A Refugee Again
- New Lands, New Selves
- Refugee Children: The Yang Warriors
- List of Contributors