Proceedings of the International Conference on Arts, Humanity and Economics, Management (ICAHEM 2019)

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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Arts, Humanity and Economics, Management (ICAHEM 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
1 April 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-945-8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200328.024How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 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/).

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