To See and to Be Seen: Portrait-Making in Y-Dang Troeung’s Landbridge

Abstract:

This essay moves between personal reflection and close reading to consider how Y-Dang Troeung claims vision in her memoir Landbridge: [life in fragments].

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This article “To See and to Be Seen: Portrait-Making in Y-Dang Troeung’s Landbridge” originally appeared in Canadian Literature 261 (2025): 36-48.

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