Fragmented Narrative and Visualized Voice Jiaxue Li College

Asian-American writers’ personal experience has deeply influenced their literary works, with some of them focusing on the traumatic topics, and using fragmented writing style. Vietnamese-American writer Le Thi Diem Thuy and Korean-American writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, both immigrants from Asia, integrate their trauma and memories into their narratives and the form of their works—The Gangster We Are All Looking For and Dictee. Le and Cha write long narratives with fragmentation and visualized voice. They use the pieces of memories and stories as the content of their books, and fragmented storytelling style as the form, in order to show writers emotions, and to help the readers understand and discover the circumstances of immigrants.

Frequently switching the location in which things happen, and discontinuously telling stories of refugees or immigrants, can help writers to provide a fragmented and displaced writing style. Liu, an English literature professor, introduces the term “geopolitics” in her work, which “refers to the involvement of geography and politics in an international framework” (Liu 71). This term “has been used by scholars to gesture toward the entanglement of nationality and transnationality in diverse...