Museumization of Subaltern Voices In Viet Nguyen's Selected Stories

Abstract

This thesis is a critical discussion over Vietnam War and its consequences.It exposes the excluded Vietnamese refugee's voices in America.It creates many refugees who are silenced and suppressed by theelites.Based on the textual analysis, ideas of different critics and library based materials the researcherfinds out that Nuguyen'scharacterslikeMr Liem, Parrish, Marcus,Victor, Mrs Beni, Mrs Hua and otherfall on the hegemonic discourse of power. Likewise, Victor's family become the victim of war and suffering from trauma.In this thesis, the concept of subaltern study is applied to the Nuguyen's,The Refugees.It is the collection of story, where characters raise their voices against the power hegemony, but the lack of solidarity and unified action leads them nowhere.The characters do not remain silence however they cannot come out from the vicious circle of subaltern position.Hence,the ultimate goal of this research is to give space to the subaltern voices.