{"product_id":"refugee-lifeworlds-9781439921760","title":"Refugee Lifeworlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eRefugee Lifeworlds \u003ci\u003eis a life-giving book, even as it dwells on war, genocide, and refugee experiences. Y-Dang Troeung has written a remarkable, moving, and courageous work that deserves a wide audience for its inspiring blend of criticism and memoir.”\u003c\/i\u003e—Viet Thanh Nguyen, University Professor at the University of Southern California, and author of \u003ci\u003eNothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“To read \u003c\/i\u003eRefugee Lifeworlds \u003ci\u003eis to have the synapses connect, lighting up the ways that refugee legacies, disability, and mental health have always been meant to speak to each other, but only now can. It is also to meet history anew, as Y-Dang Troeung moves across an astonishing archive of documents, moments, and texts with a close-reader’s care and a storyteller’s grace. This book is stunning—at once beautiful and devastating. It is the work of grieving, so that we may better regroup.”\u003c\/i\u003e—erin Khue Ninh, author of \u003ci\u003ePassing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIngratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eRefugee Lifeworlds \u003ci\u003eis a brilliant weaving of epistemological intervention, autofiction as political grievance, and abolitionist knowledge production. Argued with care and beautifully written, this profound book is invaluable for understanding the intersections of war, imperialism, and disability.”\u003c\/i\u003e—Jasbir K Puar, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"[Troeung] incisively illustrates the importance of putting critical refugee studies in conversation with critical disability studies: the book’s main intervention.\"\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Asian American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Given the book’s richly contextualized text and \u003c\/i\u003eengagé\u003ci\u003e human pacifist message, this short review can hardly do justice to a work replete with brilliant flashes…. Y-Dang Troeung has bequeathed to us a small masterpiece and poignant self-memorial.”\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Troeung strongly and artfully argues that the so-called Cold War was not cold in Cambodia.... An effective storyteller, Troeung has produced a work of grieving that creatively interweaves discussions of autofiction, autotheory, political grievance, trauma, and disability, including the 'violence of benevolence' of the countries that received Cambodian refugees.... Though not a happy book, this is an excellent one. Summing Up: Highly recommended.\"\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"With this book, the author has compiled an impressive refugee archive depicting the politics of refusal of state violence.... She skillfully connects the autobiographical self with both theory and experiences of gender, race, colonialism, refuge-seeking, survival and family inheritance as sources of knowledge. The result is a highly readable and interesting book.\"\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternational Institute for Asian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Troeung reframes questions of international complicity and responsibility in the Cambodia genocide in ways that implicate us all. Such is the power of this book including a final 'coda,' that no one reading it could doubt her general sentiments for a moment.... Given the book’s richly contextualized text and \u003c\/i\u003eengagé\u003ci\u003e human pacifist message, this short review can hardly do justice to a work replete with brilliant flashes.... [A] small masterpiece and poignant self-memorial.\"\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408323813719,"sku":"9781439921760","price":69.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439921760.jpg?v=1730502442","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/refugee-lifeworlds-9781439921760","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}