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Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam
Ben Tran
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Description for Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam
Paperback. Examines the formation of modern Vietnamese literature under French colonialism. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 2GRV; 3JH; DSBD; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823273140
SKU
V9780823273140
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About Ben Tran
Ben Tran is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and English at Vanderbilt University.
Reviews for Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam
A lucid, well-conceived, and elegantly written monograph that presents a literary history and analysis of the post-mandarin aesthetic modernism in colonial Vietnam, rethinking modernity alongside, yet beyond, the customary European model.
-Lisa Lowe
Tufts University
Post-Mandarin is a rich, rewarding, and ground-breaking study of a key moment in the development of modern Vietnamese literature. ... Read more
-Lisa Lowe
Tufts University
Post-Mandarin is a rich, rewarding, and ground-breaking study of a key moment in the development of modern Vietnamese literature. ... Read more