BOOK

The cleaving : Vietnamese writers in the diaspora

Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy, 1965- editor, Duong, Lan P., 1972- editor, Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- editor

2025

Overview

\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Authors, Vietnamese 21st century Interviews / Vietnamese Foreign countries Social conditions. / Vietnamese diaspora.
• ISBN: 9780520410350

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