Farm-to-freedom : Vietnamese Americans and their food gardens / Roy Vũ.

Author
Vũ, Roy [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2024]
Description
247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

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Series
Gideon Lincecum nature and environment series [More in this series]
Summary note
"Home gardens, in addition to providing sustenance and satisfaction, embody a sense of self identity. In this groundbreaking work on Vietnamese foodways, Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Food Gardens brings to light how the Vietnamese diasporic population in Texas uses gardens literally and figuratively to set down roots in a new country. These gardens, often hidden in plain sight, establish the seat of Vietnamese immigrant culture, according to author Roy Francis Vũ. They can also offer Vietnamese Americans an empowering pathway to forging a new homeland duality by retaining ties to the foods and environs they drew comfort from in Vietnam. Farm-to-Freedom uses the concept of emancipatory foodways as a lens into gardens that serve a semi-palliative purpose by succoring the experienced tragedies of war and exile for Vietnamese immigrants and Vietnamese Americans, which arguably adds another dimension to the importance of the home garden. Vũ covers topics including but not limited to culinary citizenship, food democracy, culinary justice, and food sovereignty. Farm-to-Freedom reveals how these gardens not only provide those who tend them a greater sense of security and agency in an unfamiliar land but also give them the means to preserve and expand Vietnamese cuisine for themselves while simultaneously enriching food culture in the United States. With a wealth of original oral histories, community-based recipes and poetry, and photographs of home gardens in suburban and urban settings, Farm-to-Freedom provides a deeper understanding of the Vietnamese diaspora in Texas for scholars, professionals, and general readers alike."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • INTRODUCTION. In Our Garden, After the War
  • Kitchen and Food Gardens in War and Refuge
  • Gardens on the Margins-Asian Immigrants and Vietnamese Refugees Resettle in America
  • Sowing the Seeds of Freedom-Gardening an Emancipated Life
  • Global South Meets the New South-Perseverance and Expansion of Vietnamese Foodways
  • Emancipatory Foodways-Food Sovereignty, Culinary Citizenship, and Homeland Duality
  • Conclusion-From Refuge to Redemption
  • EPILOGUE. Farm-to-Freedom for Congolese and Syrian Refugees.
ISBN
  • 9781648431852 (paperback)
  • 1648431852 (paperback)
LCCN
2024015576
OCLC
1418992898
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