Role of a Spy in Viet Than Nguyen's The Sympathizer and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker

Abstract

This thesis deals with the portrayal of spy roles as depicted in the novels Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee and The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It depicts the relevant literary and historical context of the two novels as well as the novels' genres such as postmodernism and spy fiction. The main characters are contrasted according to their roles as spies from literary, professional, and immigrant perspectives.