Post-Mandarin : masculinity and aesthetic modernity in colonial Vietnam / Ben Tran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tran, Ben, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnamese literature--History and criticism.

Vietnamese literature.

Women in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

178 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction: The Post-Mandarin

1. Autoethnography and Post-Mandarin Masculinity

2. Pornography as Realism, Realism as Aesthetic Modernity

3. The Sociological Novel and Anticolonialism

4. I Speak in the Third Person: Women and Language in Colonial Vietnam

5. Queer Internationalism and Post-mandarin Literature

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823273133

082327313X

9780823273140

0823273148

OCLC:

950450576