Vietnamese Literature in the Diaspora
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- ISBN 9781041380283
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 Vietnamese exile and first-generation writers, to 1.5- and second-generation authors. They examine how war, migration, and historical rupture shape identity and ethical life across diasporic contexts, and offer the first sustained cross-national and cross-generational study of Vietnamese diasporic writing as a lived practice of cosmopolitanism from below. The book also shows how storytelling becomes a way of negotiating conditions of displacement, in turn challenging dominant understandings of cosmopolitanism grounded in elite mobility, or seamless global belonging. Memory functions not as restoration but as ethical positioning shaped by loss, nostalgia, witness, or, at times, as something that must be partially resisted or forgotten in order to survive.
Intended for scholars and students in Asian Studies, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, the book offers new insights into Vietnamese diasporic literature and broader debates on memory, identity, and cosmopolitanism.
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.
