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Phantasmatic Indochina : French colonial ideology in architecture, film, and literature / Panivong Norindr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norindr, Panivong, 1961-
- Series:
- Asia-Pacific
- Asia-Pacific, culture, politics, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, French.
- Arts, Modern--20th century--France.
- Arts, Modern.
- Indochina in art.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- x, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- This reflection on colonial culture argues for an examination of "Indochina" as a fictive and mythic construct, a phantasmatic legacy of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. Panivong Norindr uses postcolonial theory to demonstrate how French imperialism manifests itself not only through physical domination of geographic entities, but also through the colonization of the imaginary. In this careful reading of architecture, film, and literature, Norindr lays bare the processes of fantasy, desire, and nostalgia constituent of French territorial aggression against Indochina.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822317788
- 0822317877
- OCLC:
- 33898017
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