The Cleaving : Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy.

Series:

Critical Refugee Studies

Critical Refugee Studies ; v.8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Vietnamese--21st century--Interviews.

Authors, Vietnamese.

Vietnamese--Foreign countries--Social conditions.

Vietnamese.

Vietnamese diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

The first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Cleaving brings together Vietnamese artists and writers from around the world in conversation about their craft and how their work has been shaped and received by mainstream culture and their own communities. This collection highlights how Vietnamese diasporic writers speak about having been cleaved--a condition in which they have been separated from, yet still hew to, the country that they have left behind. Composed of eighteen dialogues among thirty-seven writers from France, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Canada, Australia, Israel, and the United States, the book expands on the many lives that Vietnamese writers inhabit. The dialogues touch on family history, legacies of colonialism and militarism, and the writers' own artistic and literary achievements. Taken together, these conversations insist on a deeper reckoning with the conditions of displacement. Featured writers: Hoai Huong Aubert-Nguyen, Amy Quan Barry, Doan Bui, Thi Bui, Lan Cao, Cathy Linh Che, André Dao, Duy Đoàn, Lan P. Duong, Dương Vân Mai Elliott, Le Ly Hayslip, Matt Huynh, Violet Kupersmith, Thanhhà Lại, Vincent Lam, T.K. Lê, Tracey Lien, Marcelino Trương Lực , Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Anna Möi, Beth (Bich) Minh Nguyen, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Hoa Nguyen, Philip Nguyễn, Thảo Nguyễn, Vaan Nguyen, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Andrew X. Pham, Aimee Phan, Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood, Bao Phi, Dao Strom, Kim Thúy, Paul Tran, Monique Truong, Minh Huynh Vu, Ocean Vuong.

Contents:

Introduction. A cleaving, a leaving, a heaving

On violence : there and here

Authorship and authority : the Americas and Việt Nam

Writing feminism and disobedience

Representation, writing, reception

Form and future

Conclusion : On being a writer at the border.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-41037-8

OCLC:

1500761099