The politics of space: Vietnam as a Communist heterotopia in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees

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The politics of space: Vietnam as a Communist heterotopia in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees (2017) explores hardships and aspirations of non-Communist Vietnamese led between two contradicting geographical imaginations. This article draws upon Foucault’s theories of “other spaces”—heterotopia, utopia and dystopia—to examine the socio-political constructs of...

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Main Author:	Asl, Moussa Pourya
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15140/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15140/1/35490-122660-1-PB.pdf

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