'I'm trying to make a really pleasant garden path for you, a "Trojan horse" for history!': an interview with Thi Bui. Issue 4 (4th July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Camden, Vera J.; Zullo, Valentino L.
• Is Part Of: Journal of graphic novels & comics. Volume 12:Issue 4(2021)
• Page Start: 298
• Page End: 315
• Publication Date: 2021-07-04
• Subjects: Vietnam -- refugee -- Asian -- Asian-American -- memoir -- Thi Bui; Graphic novels -- Periodicals; Comic books, strips, etc -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Periodicals; Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Periodicals; Art, Modern; Comic books, strips, etc; Graphic novels; Popular culture; Comicroman; Comic; Periodicals; 741.5
• DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2021.1920441
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2150-4857

Abstract

ABSTRACT: As 2020 came to a close we sat down with Thi Bui over Zoom to discuss her graphic narrative, The Best We Could Do, her recent collaboration on a children's book, A Different Pond (co-created with Bao Phi) and the urgency of her works in progress on climate change and immigrant detention and deportation. We discussed our generational responses to the Viet Nam War and her determination to reclaim the history of this American war from the perspective of the Vietnamese people. In an era where information is spread so quickly, often unreliably and indeed overwhelmingly, we recognise how important the slow journalism of comics continues to be.