미국문화와 베트남전쟁: 비엣 탄 응웬의 『동반자』에 나타난 혼종적 주체의 문제
The Vietnam War in American Culture: An analysis of The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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This paper analyzes The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, which won Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. Nguyen deconstructs the existing narratives on the Vietnam War by introducing the voices of indigenous Vietnamese people who have been long silenced in the representation of the war. Thus, he depicts the war and its after-effects from both American and Vietnamese perspectives. Moreover, he includes the rare voices of the North Vietnamese sympathizers and elaborates on how they regarded the war. The protagonist’s subjectivity as a communist sympathizer enables him to critique both American and Vietnamese cultures simultaneously. This paper first attempts to situate the text in the context of the shifting mode of historical sensitivity in the US society, evidenced by changing historical narratives of US school text books. Then it examines the role of the protagonist borrowing Homi Bhabha’s notion of hybridity. This paper concludes that the protagonist’s ‘in-betweenness’ or hybridity enables him to critique and represent both American and Vietnamese cultures in a balanced manner, which leads to the generation of a polyphonic novel, The Sympathizer.
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This paper analyzes The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, which won Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. Nguyen deconstructs the existing narratives on the Vietnam War by introducing the voices of indigenous Vietnamese people who have been long silenced in the representation of the war. Thus, he depicts the war and its after-effects from both American and Vietnamese perspectives. Moreover, he includes the rare voices of the North Vietnamese sympathizers and elaborates on how they regarded the war. The protagonist’s subjectivity as a communist sympathizer enables him to critique both American and Vietnamese cultures simultaneously. This paper first attempts to situate the text in the context of the shifting mode of historical sensitivity in the US society, evidenced by changing historical narratives of US school text books. Then it examines the role of the protagonist borrowing Homi Bhabha’s notion of hybridity. This paper concludes that the protagonist’s ‘in-betweenness’ or hybridity enables him to critique and represent both American and Vietnamese cultures in a balanced manner, which leads to the generation of a polyphonic novel, The Sympathizer.
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