To See and to Be Seen

Portrait-Making in Y-Dang Troeung’s Landbridge

Authors

  • Veronica Austen St. Jerome's University, University of Waterloo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/cl.vi261.199776

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].

Author Biography

Veronica Austen, St. Jerome's University, University of Waterloo

Veronica J. Austen is an associate professor in the Department of English at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario, where she also serves as associate dean. Her current project, Artful (Un)Belonging, which received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, considers how the visual arts and other visual materials are deployed in contemporary Canadian literature to navigate and communicate experiences of (un)belonging. She also publishes in such areas as eating/food in literature and Anglo-Caribbean poetry/fiction.

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Published

Dec. 17, 2025 (UTC)

How to Cite

Austen, Veronica. “To See and to Be Seen: Portrait-Making in Y-Dang Troeung’s Landbridge”. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, no. 261, Dec. 2025, pp. 36-48, doi:10.14288/cl.vi261.199776.

Issue

No. 261 (2025): Swirling into a Field of Life: Works in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung

Section

[life]