Between 'I' and 'We': Viet Thanh Nguyen's Interethnic Multitudes
| Autor: | Caroline Rody |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Literature
Linguistics and Language Vision History Literature and Literary Theory business.industry Vietnamese 05 social sciences Americanization 0507 social and economic geography Alienation 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies 050701 cultural studies Language and Linguistics language.human_language Politics 0602 languages and literature language business Intertextuality American literature Drama |
| Zdroj: | PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 133:396-405 |
| ISSN: | 1938-1530 0030-8129 |
| DOI: | 10.1632/pmla.2018.133.2.396 |
| Popis: | The rise of an interethnic imagination in recent american literature has been remaking what we think of as ethnic fiction into interethnic fiction. While memory, history, and tradition continue as shaping forces in American letters, an urge toward encounter with others is vividly reworking fictional structures, plots, casts of characters, and uses of language, as well as social visions, literary ambitions, and currents of intertextual influence. In some cases, the mind of a protagonist or narrator, indeed the very mind of a text, comes to seem the site of a momentous encounter of peoples, a living human nexus (Rody). Such is the case in the fiction of Viet Thanh Nguyen, in which the interethnic impulse generates a remarkable pronominal drama, a performance that oscillates between a narratorial “I” and a “we” to negotiate—across the pain and struggle of war, dislocation, and immigrant Americanization and across disparate political and literary allegiances—a Vietnamese American voice. |
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