An earlier, shorter version of Chapter One Section 3 (“Ghosts and Just Memory”) appeared as “Nguyen’s Ghosts in The Sympathizer: Collapsing Binaries and Signalling Just Memory.” Scrutiny2, 24.1 (2019): 3–12.
This book was funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. I would like to thank them and the Rhodes University Research Office, the Rhodes University Postgraduate Funding Office, the faculty and administrative staff at the Department of Literary Studies in English, and my fellow members of the Intersecting Diasporas research group (idg) for all their support. I would especially like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor, academic host, mentor, and friend, Prof Sam Naidu, for her rigorous, insightful, and constructive feedback throughout this project.
To all my friends and family: thank you for standing by me through thick and thin.
I dedicate this work to Ann Lynnette and James Christian Bosman (Mom and Dad), and to my sister Fiona, her husband Mike, and my nephew Patrick. Last and by no means least, I also dedicate this book to my son: Morgan James Bosman.