1st Edition

Vietnamese Literature in the Diaspora Exploring Memory, Identity, and Cosmopolitanism

By Lien Pham, Tran Tinh Vy Copyright 2027
200 Pages
by Routledge

Examining Vietnamese diasporic literature as a critical site for understanding memory, identity, and cosmopolitanism from below, this book repositions Vietnamese literary writings as a form of cultural and political engagement. Through literary and media works by Vietnamese writers across the United States, France, Germany, and Australia, the authors trace generational shifts from South... Read more

1.       Vietnamese Diasporic Writing: Reimagining Cosmopolitanism

2.       Diaspora, Memory, and Ethical Positioning

3.       Ethical Agency, Memory, and the Legacy of South Vietnamese Literature in the United States

4.       Memory, Labour, and Vietnamese Diasporic Writing in Germany: Remembering and Becoming

5.       Memory and Identity in Vietnamese Diaspora Literature in France

6.       Diaspora, Ethics, and 1.5–Second Generation Vietnamese Writing in the United States and Australia: Inherited War

7.       Diasporic Memory and Political Identity: Vietnamese Media in Australia

8.       Identity, Ethics, and Vietnamese Diasporic Writing: Memory as Position      

9.       Writing Cosmopolitanism from Below: Ethics, Diaspora, and Historical Specificity

Biography

Lien Pham is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work explores migration, diaspora, identity, and belonging. Her research spans Vietnamese transnational communities, international education, citizenship, and social change, with a particular interest in the social and cultural consequences of displacement and mobility. She is the author of International Graduates Returning to Vietnam, Political Participation and Democratic Capability, and Social Impact with the Capability Approach. Her work brings sociological perspectives to questions of memory, identity, displacement, and belonging in the Vietnamese diaspora.

Tran Tinh Vy is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Literature and Linguistics, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City. After receiving her Ph.D. in Vietnamese Studies from the University of Hamburg, Germany (2020), she focuses her research on diasporic communities and literature, memory studies, and postcolonial studies.