The displaced : refugee writers on refugee lives
2018
Book
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained. In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prizewinning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience. Featuring original essays by a collection of writers from around the world, The Displaced is an indictment of closing our doors, and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge.
Main title:
The displaced : refugee writers on refugee lives / edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Author:
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-, editorAzam, Joseph, authorBezmozgis, David, authorBhutto, Fatima, authorBui, Thi, authorDorfman, Ariel, authorGolinkin, Lev, authorGrande, Reyna, authorHadero, Meron, authorHemon, Aleksandar, authorKertes, Joseph, author
Imprint:
New York : Abrams Press, 2018.©2018
Collation:
190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Introduction / Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Last, first, middle / Joseph Azam -- Common story / David Bezmozgis -- Flesh and sand / Fatima Bhutto -- Perspective and What gets lost / Thi Bui -- How succulent food defeated Trump's wall before it has been built / Ariel Dorfman -- Guest of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa / Lev Golinkin -- The parent who stays / Reyna Grande -- To walk in their shoes / Meron Hadero -- God's fate / Aleksandar Hemon -- Second country / Joseph Kertes -- 13 ways of being an immigrant / Porochista Khakpour -- Refugees and exiles / Marina Lewycka -- This is what the journey does / Maaza Mengiste -- The ungrateful refugee / Dina Nayeri -- A refugee again / Vu Tran -- New lands, new selves / Novuyo Rosa Tshuma -- Refugee children: the Yang warriors / Kao Kalia Yang.
ISBN:
9781419729485 (hardback)
Dewey class:
305.906914
Language:
English
BRN:
329184