GRATITUDE, RESISTANCE, AND MOBILE MEMORY IN THUONG VUONG-RIDDICK’S THE EVERGREEN COUNTRY: A MEMOIR OF VIETNAM
GRATITUDE, RESISTANCE, AND MOBILE MEMORY IN THUONG VUONG-RIDDICK’S THE EVERGREEN COUNTRY: A MEMOIR OF VIETNAM

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses how Canada has appropriated the narrativeof the Vietnam War to present itself as a progressive country. Specifically,it analyzes how the Land of Maple Leaf co-opted diasporic Vietnamesenarratives to promote a nation-building project that exalted the country’s multiculturalideology and fostered its image as a peaceful kingdom. The articlealso examines how one of the first memoirs written by a Vietnamese Canadian,Thuong Vuong-Riddick’s The Evergreen Country: A Memoir of Vietnam (2007),complicates our understanding of the diaspora by both enforcing and resistingdominant narratives that portray Vietnamese Canadians as emblematicvictims and/or successful immigrants who are grateful beneficiaries of liberalfreedom, democracy, and wealth.

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