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 an...

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1. Verfasser: Tran, Ben (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
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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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780823273171
0823273172
9780823273164
0823273164
9780823273188
0823273180

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