Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Vietnamese Women Writers and the Reimagining of Identity

This article offers a consideration in which Vietnam is a nation must bear serious impacts of colonialism heritage and imperialism (neocolonialism), located both in social realities and in the Vietnamese spiritual life. The national liberation movement as nationalism, the consciousness and national spirit after that provides vivid reality to the post-tectonic independent nation. This process has just brought both common definition and a very distinct. Vietnamese female literature, which do not reflect the process of post - colonial society, exist as a bright explanation and confirmation of the event. Social materials and humane from veritable life cause their works to exist as a documentary evidence of history, expressing a hard time of the country after the war. As the same time, not starting from the big political events but from everyday life logic, from views of individuals, those authors have treated the period of history from a very different point of view, a way of writing history through figures, to their own views, history is a cause, a witness to appeal personal issues.