Post-Mandarin masculinity and aesthetic modernity in colonial Vietnam
"Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media...all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietnam's modern a...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Fordham University Press
[2017]
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media...all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietnam's modern anticolonial literature. The term "post-mandarin" illuminates how Vietnam's deracinated figures of intellectual authority adapted to a literary field moving away from a male-to-male literary address toward print culture. With this shift, post-mandarin intellectuals increasingly wrote for and about women. Post-Mandarin illustrates the significance of the inclusion of modern women in the world of letters: a more democratic system of aesthetic and political representation that gave rise to anticolonial nationalism. This conceptualization of the "post-mandarin" promises to have a significant impact on the fields of literary theory, postcolonial studies, East Asian and Southeast Asian studies, and modernist studies"... |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 178 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780823273133 9780823273140 |