Fresh like a flower, invisible like peace: locating Phuong Within the orientalist margins of Graham Greene's The Quiet American

• Main Author: See Tow, Alexis York Ian
• Other Authors: Bede Scott
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Orientalism; The Quiet American; Gender; Phuong; Subaltern studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175526
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The narrative of Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American is set on the imminent backdrop of the Vietnam War and contends with the changing international influence over Vietnam in the 1950s. Scholarship argues that Phuong, the main female love interest caught between two men, is trapped in and subje...