Southeast Asian Detective Stories from a Post-colonial Perspective : The Case of Vietnamese Detective Stories in the Early Twenty-first Century

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Southeast Asian detective stories and their scholarships have
shown new understandings of justice and identity in this
region. This study on Vietnamese detective stories in the
early twenty-first century contributes to post-colonial
discourses to reflect how colonial structures were
constructed and reconstructed from the past until now.
Starting with transnational characters and contexts, we
demonstrate the subversion revealed in the way the
perpetrator-victim are transposed and their motivations for
the crimes. The Vietnamese detective novelists adjust the
conventions of detective stories to address these issues of
law, ethics, and truth that arise in the post-colonial context.
These multidimensional narratives of crime and justice also
serve as resistance to the grand narratives of power that
have dominated Vietnam for years.