Refugee Narratives in Ru

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/).

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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  -