The transdiasporic turn towards multiplicity in contemporary Francophone and American Việt Kiều literature

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    Abstract

    This chapter reveals how Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen and Vietnamese Francophone author Anna Moï make important new contributions to advancing the ‘transdiasporic turn’ in contemporary Việt Kiều literature. I trace the trajectory of a literary engagement with depictions of transdiasporic interrelations in Moï's Le venin du papillon (2017) and Nguyen's The Sympathizer (2015) and The Committed (2021). These novels demonstrate an expansion of the notion of the transdiasporic through a proliferation of Deleuzian multiplicities. In turn, I argue that multiplicitous forms of diasporic subjectivity constitute the identifying feature of an evolving Vietnamese transdiasporic literature.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRoutledge handbook of the Vietnamese diaspora
    EditorsNathalie Huỳnh Châu Nguyễn
    Place of PublicationLondon ; New York
    PublisherRoutledge, Taylor and Francis Group
    Chapter13
    Pages238-252
    Number of pages15
    ISBN (Electronic)9781003036104, 9781040004012
    ISBN (Print)9780367463960, 9781032537344
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2024

    Publication series

    NameRoutledge Handbooks
    PublisherRoutledge

    Keywords

    • transdiasporic literature
    • Vietnamese diaspora
    • Multiplicity
    • Deleuze
    • Anna Moi
    • Viet Thanh Nguyen

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