Museumization of Subaltern Voices In Viet Nguyen's Selected Stories
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2018-04
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Department of English
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.
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Hegemony, Patriarchy, Refugee, Subaltern