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Discourse of Minority Communities: Comparing Archetypal Heroes in Nguyễn Huy Thiệp’s “The Tiger’s Heart” (1971) and John Steinbeck’s The Pearl (1947)

  • SUVANNABHUMI
  • Abbr : SVN
  • 2022, 14(1), pp.53-70
  • DOI : 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.53
  • Publisher : Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Southeast Asia
  • Received : October 21, 2021
  • Accepted : January 15, 2022
  • Published : January 31, 2022

Nguyen Thi Thu Hang 1 Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan 1

1College of Education, Hue University, Vietnam.

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ABSTRACT

This article compares archetypal heroes in Nguyễn Huy Thiệp's “The Tiger’s Heart” and John Steinbeck's The Pearl. It aims to explore the voices of marginalized groups and ethnic minorities who suffer amidst the clash of civilizations. In exploring cultural communication between minority and mainstream communities as embodied by the archetypal heroes in the two works, this article highlights implications of resistance against values of the dominant. The method of "mythization" in modern Eastern and Western Literature, as this article argues, demonstrates the importance of minority discourses in as far as cultural conflicts in the globalizing world are concerned.

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