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Re-centering the Highlands: Agency and World-Making in Vietnamese Ethnic Prose

  • SUVANNABHUMI
  • Abbr : SVN
  • 2026, 18(2), pp.95~124
  • DOI : 10.22801/svn.2026.18.2.95
  • Publisher : Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Southeast Asia
  • Received : January 19, 2026
  • Accepted : April 23, 2026
  • Published : July 31, 2026

Chi P. Pham 1,  Do Thi Thu Huyen 2

1The Institute of Literature in the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
2Journal of Literary and Art Theory and Criticism

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ABSTRACT

The prose of ethnic minorities in modern Vietnamese literature not only reflects the social life, culture, and geographical space of the highlands but also serves as a source of knowledge about social life, culture, and history. Based on an analysis of the poetics of selected literary works from Tuyển tập Văn học Dân tộc và Miền núi (Anthology of Ethnic and Mountain Literature, 2 volumes, published in 2007), this article argues that these works build an understanding of the highlands from the very experiences of the local community in labor, collective memory, social relations, and attachment to the living environment. Instead of portraying the highlands as a peripheral area to be integrated into national discourses on development, the short stories place the local people at the center of the process of creating meaning and remembering history. From there, the highlands emerge as a space capable of self-interpreting its own life and contributing unique perspectives to contemporary Vietnamese history and culture.

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