"Disorientation constitutes a highly original and important piece of literary, historical, and cultural scholarship, and will no doubt establish Professor Britto as a leading authority on Vietnamese literature in French. The book is a nuanced and theoreti

"This fine book sheds new light on a literature that has been neglected too long. It offers a truly interdisciplinary, contextual set of readings, giving a very full sense of Viet Nam, of the history of its entanglements with France, and of the brilliant

Karl Ashoka Britto is Associate Professor in French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.