The poetic narrative recounts a story of a Vietnamese refugee daughter I met in New Zealand. Her experience of family separation and dispersion when her parents decided to flee the country after the Vietnam war ended in 1975 evoked a sense of trauma, a collective trauma of thousands of Vietnamese who suffered from losses: “their country,” their home, their families, and their place, to the oceans they crossed. Many of them never had the future they thought they would when they stepped on the overcrowded, half-sunk boat into the dark and could not manage to see the light.

中文翻译：

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从散居空间写作：一个难民女儿的诗意叙事

诗意的叙述讲述了我在新西兰遇到的越南难民女儿的故事。1975 年越南战争结束后，她的父母决定逃离该国时，她的家庭分离和分散的经历唤起了一种创伤感，这是成千上万遭受损失的越南人的集体创伤：“他们的国家”，他们的家，他们的家人，以及他们的位置，他们穿越的海洋。当他们踏上人满为患、半沉没的小船进入黑暗、无法看到光明时，他们中的许多人从未有过他们认为的未来。