Literally Displaced: Writing the Southeast Asian Diaspora

Department: Humanities Center

Date and Time: February 1, 2022 - December 1, 2021 | 8:30 AM-9:30 AM

Event Location: UCI Langson Library and the Southeast Asian Archive website

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Literally Displaced: Writing the Southeast Asian Diaspora centers the voices, memories, experiences, and desires of writers from the Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese diaspora. Exploring their selected published works alongside materials from the University of California, Irvine Libraries Southeast Asian Archive, this exhibit asks how literature illuminates the conditions of displacement for Southeast Asian Americans and what new understanding emerges when we write from the position of the displaced. Through these writers' masterful storytelling and representation, we are invited to delve deep into themes such as the role of language in refugee families, vexed identity formations, familial connections, and negotiating cultural memory, and more.

Curated by Dr. Thuy Vo Dang (Southeast Asian Archive), Mary Nguyen (OC&SEAA Student Assistant), and Louis Heine and Annie Nguyen (Humanities Out There Undergraduate Interns), a digital exhibit accompanies the physical exhibit opening in the Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive Center in February 2022.

The exhibit is a partnership between the OC&SEAA Center, the Humanities Center, and Illuminations: the Chancellor's Art & Culture Initiative.

More information HERE