ABSTRACT
Analysing four major works of diasporic Vietnamese metafiction by Linda Lê, Nam Le, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ocean Vuong, this chapter explores how diasporic Vietnamese writers attempt to meet three converging narrative demands: to establish themselves as serious practitioners of literary arts; to represent their ethnic group to the larger refugee-receiving societies; and to re-evaluate the Vietnam War as an enduring conflict that still reverberates in the diaspora. The texts of this genre probe the implications of writing against dominant historiographies of the war from the diasporic margin.
