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| Join us for what is sure to be an interesting evening with Melbourne based academic Nathalie Nguyen. Nathalie comes from a Vietnamese background and brings a particular empathy and understanding to her writing. More details about Nathalie and her books below.
When: 6 - 8pm, Friday November 17, 2006. Where: Asia Bookroom, Lawry Place, Macquarie, ACT 2614 RSVP: For seating and catering purposes by Thursday November 16: email books@asiabookroom.com or phone 6251 5191 All welcome to this free event! Nathalie Nguyen will be speaking about the differences in writing her two books Vietnamese Voices: Gender and Cultural Identity in the Vietnamese Francophone Novel (2003) and Voyage of Hope: Vietnamese Australian Women's Narratives (2005). Vietnamese Voices is based on Nathalie's doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford, and is an analysis of Vietnamese Francophone novels, while Voyage of Hope grew out of a community project with the Australian Vietnamese Women's Welfare Association in Melbourne and is the first book to result from her work as an ARC Fellow. Voyage of Hope explores the experiences and journeys of Vietnamese women who arrived in Australia as part of the massive exodus of refugees from Vietnam following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. It reveals women's memories of life in Vietnam during the French colonial period and after, throughout the war and its aftermath, and what motivated them to leave their homeland and embark on an often dangerous journey to freedom a voyage of hope that eventually led them to a new life in Australia. About Nathalie Nguyen: Nathalie Nguyen holds an ARC Australian Research Fellowship at the Australian Centre, the University of Melbourne. After completing a B.A. (Hons) at Melbourne, she won a Commonwealth Scholarship to Oxford, where she obtained her doctorate. She taught French at the Universities of Adelaide and Newcastle before taking up her appointment at Melbourne in 2005. She is the author of Vietnamese Voices: Gender and Cultural Identity in the Vietnamese Francophone Novel (Southeast Asia Publications, Northern Illinois University, 2003) and Voyage of Hope: Vietnamese Australian Women's Narratives (Common Ground, 2005). |
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