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Pairing image and text, Troubling Borders showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization. For some of these women on the margins of the margin, crafting and showing their work is a bold act in itself. Their provocative and accessible creations tell unique stories, provide a sharp contrast to familiar stereotypes - Southeast Asian women as exotic sex symbols, dragon ladies, prostitutes, and "bar girls" - and serve as entry points for broader discussions on questions of history, memory, and identity. Isabelle Thuy Pelaud is associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University; Lan Duong is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside; Mariam B. Lam is associate professor of comparative literature, media and cultural studies, and director of Southeast Asian studies, at the University of California, Riverside; and Kathy L. Nguyen is a writer and editor in San Francisco.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Troubling Borders
• Author: Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780295993195
• ISBN: 0295993197
• ID: 02520700
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Weight: 907 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2014

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