She is the author of Unpolished Gem, Her Fathers Daughter and Laurinda and the. I agreed with them, but with some minor reservations. Alices work has appeared in the Monthly, Good Weekend, the Age, The Best Australian Stories and Meanjin. She is the author of Unpolished Gem, Her Fathers Daughter and Laurinda and the editor of the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia. Unpolished gem (2006), her first, established Pung in the eyes of both critics and readers as a writer to watch. Alice Pung is a writer, editor, teacher and lawyer based in Melbourne. In Her Father’s Daughter, disaporic subjectivity is articulated through the mapping of transnational and transgenerational histories. Alice Pung is a writer, editor, teacher and lawyer based in Melbourne. Her father's daughter (2011) is Alice Pung's second memoir - if you can quite call this book a memoir. 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. Hirsch describes the family as ‘the privileged site of the memorial transmission’ of trauma. 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.
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