Abstract
Chapter Two discusses exile and family estrangement in Franco-Vietnamese author Kim Lefèvre’s two autofictional works, Métisse blanche (1989) and Retour à la saison des pluies (1990). It examines the métissage, or mixed-race identity, of the narrator Kim. For key postcolonial thinkers such as François Lionnet and François Vergès, métissage is a dynamic process of opposition against static markers of identity. Yet Kim and those around her espouse the French colonial thinking which equates métissage with inferiority. Kim considers it a problematic, disruptive state which causes her geographic and metaphorical exile, both as a child in Vietnam, and as an adult in France. Examining the colonial dimensions of Lefèvre’s gendered exile within her family sets up a discussion of how the other authors deconstruct colonial paradigms and work within a new, postcolonial framework.
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