Refugee Narratives in Ru
Authors
Tianwei Liu
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Tianwei Liu
Available Online 1 April 2020.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200328.024How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Ru, refugee narratives, identity construction
- Abstract
Ru is an autobiography written by Canadian Vietnamese writer Kim Thuy. In this novel, Kim depicts her family’s experiences as Vietnamese refugees, as well as how they settle down in Canada. This paper focuses on refugee narratives in the novel from three aspects: war narrative, the experience of refugees and their identity construction. The paper comes to the conclusion that refugee narratives depict the cruelty of war, reveal the harsh condition of refuges, and explore refugees’ identity construction. So refugee narratives embody the humanistic concern of literature.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Tianwei Liu PY - 2020 DA - 2020/04/01 TI - Refugee Narratives in Ru BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Arts, Humanity and Economics, Management (ICAHEM 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 115 EP - 118 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200328.024 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200328.024 ID - Liu2020 ER -