THE EXILE STATUS OF THE VIETNAMESE IN SOME CONTEMPORARY PROSE WORKS

Abstract

In the last decades of the twentieth century, when the post-war life became extremely poor and backward, many Vietnamese thought of finding a "promised land" in Europe. Many others, for personal reasons such as going to school, following family reunification, changing the current living environment, etc., have also left the country.
The truth was only uncovered when, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many prose works of writers who had experienced life in Europe were published. Thereby, readers can imagine the hardships, suffering, feelings of loneliness, lack of friendship, and lack of homeland of those who have left the country and lived in foreign lands. In this article, we focus on analyzing and explaining the exile status and life of Vietnamese immigrants and expatriates expressed in contemporary prose, while conveying a message of warning to decisions to leave hastily, delusionally; and to elucidate new features of the human image in Vietnamese literature.
Keywords: Exile status, Vietnamese, Vietnamese prose, Contemporary Vietnamese prose.