In Her Father’s Daughter, disaporic subjectivity is articulated through the mapping of transnational and transgenerational histories. Literary texts such as Pung’s can bring about the timely reanimation of the post-settler state’s archives through investing them with familial forms of mediation and aesthetic expression. Her postmemorial journey is one into her own heart, variously described as ‘a deformed dumpling’ (28) and ‘rotting fruit’ (32). In Her Father’s Daughter, Pung parallels the heroic narrative of her father’s survival of ‘a real and bloody social revolution’ ( HFD, 48) with the more modest narrative of her own embodied travails with ‘authentic feeling’ (21) regarding her affective connectivity with her extended family and the cultural and geographical landscapes they inhabited. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Her Fathers Daughter By Alice Pung paperback30 January 2013 24.99 or 4 payments of 6.25 with Learn more ADD TO CART Booklovers earn 1. Hirsch describes the family as ‘the privileged site of the memorial transmission’ of trauma. Her Father’s Daughter - Ebook written by Alice Pung. Her books include the memoirs Unpolished Gem (2006), Her Fathers Daughter (2011) and. Alice is the oldest of four - she has a brother, Alexander, and two sisters, Alison and Alina. Alice Pung’s postmemoir of the after-effects of political violence maps a discursive trajectory from (1) her father’s survivor memory of the Cambodian genocide, to (2) her own postmemory as a second-generation Asian-Australian, to (3) the latter’s remediation as social memory within the Australian (trans)national imaginary. Alice Pung OAM (born 1981) is an Australian writer, editor and lawyer. Alice’s father, Kuan - a survivor of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime - named her after Lewis Carroll’s character because after surviving the Killing Fields, he thought Australia was a Wonderland.
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