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Rencontres exceptionnelles
In âRencontres exceptionnellesâ Jean Vanmai offers a thoughtful personal account of his participation in the colloquium âRencontresâ. Taking the perspective of a Caledo-Viet author, whose writing has long been confined to his small home island in the Pacific, he reflects on how his enchanting encounter with a larger community of readers, researchers and, in particular, French and Australian fellow writers of Vietnamese origin reconnected him with his roots and voices of the Vietnamese diaspora. Using the trope of the unanswered letter from a Vietnamese boatperson stranded in a Malaysian refugee camp in the early 1980s, he addresses the painful questions of war, loss and exile. By taking upon himself to respond some forty years later to his compatriotâs distress call, he dwells on the Vietnamese collective past and investigates his own sense of identity and belongingness. He concludes his narrative with the vision of a borderless Vietnamese diaspora where generations of proud descendants of Dragons and Immortals bond and share the same love for the ancestral land.
âRencontres exceptionnellesâ est un compte-rendu personnel et rĂ©flectif dans lequel Jean Vanmai rĂ©flĂ©chit Ă sa participation au colloque âRencontresâ. En prenant la perspective dâun auteur CalĂ©do-Viet dont lâĂ©criture a Ă©tĂ© longtemps confinĂ©e Ă sa petite Ăźle au cĆur du Pacifique, lâauteur se penche sur les rencontres Ă©tablies avec les lecteurs, les chercheurs et surtout ses confrĂšres franco- et australo-vietnamiens qui lâont reconnectĂ© Ă ses racines et Ă la diaspora vietnamienne. Il utilise le motif de la lettre morte quâune migrante vietnamienne Ă©chouĂ©e dans un camp de rĂ©fugiĂ©s en Malaisie lui a envoyĂ©e et quâil a oubliĂ©e pendant une quarantaine dâannĂ©es pour aborder les questions douloureuses de la guerre, la perte et lâexil. Ă travers sa rĂ©ponse tardive Ă lâappel de dĂ©tresse de sa compatriote, Vanmai replonge dans le passĂ© collectif vietnamien et examine ses propres sentiments dâidentitĂ© et dâappartenance. Pour conclure, il offre la vision dâune diaspora vietnamienne sans frontiĂšre oĂč les fiers descendants de Dragons et dâImmortels se retrouvent unis dans un mĂȘme amour de la terre ancestrale
Centenaire de la présence vietnamienne en Nouvelle-Calédonie / Jean Vanmai
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