The Saigon sisters : privileged women in the resistance / Patricia D. Norland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norland, Patricia, author.

Series:

NIU series in Southeast Asian studies.

NIU series in Southeast Asian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indochinese War, 1946-1954--Personal narratives, Vietnamese.

Indochinese War, 1946-1954.

Upper class women.

Political participation.

Women revolutionaries.

Vietnam.

Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City.

Indochinese War, 1946-1954--Women--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City.

Women revolutionaries--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City--Biography.

Upper class women--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City--Biography.

Upper class women--Political activity--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)--History--20th century.

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).

Women.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- Vietnamese.

Biographies.

History.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Offers the perspective of a group of privileged women, daughters of the elite in colonial Saigon, who rebel and fight for independence from France"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Thanh: "Our hearts beating for the cause"

Trang: "Living a contradiction"

Minh: "Generation at a crossroads"

Le An: "The resistance is for me the university of life"

Sen: "Living in the jungle was a question of habit"

Tuyen: "With music, the revolution had more of a chance to succeed"

Lien An: "We were in a French colony but, deep down, we remained Vietnamese"

Xuan: "We found the ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality were not for our people"

Oanh: "The deciding reason I did not become a refugee was I went to study in the U.S."

Thanh: "We had private lives but suppressed them. But we are, after all, human beings"

Trang: "I was prepared for any sacrifice or risk"

Minh: "I led two lives"

Le An: "The theme of our work in putting on plays was revolution"

Sen: "We thought of ourselves as working for the people, not a particular party"

Tuyen: "Everyone thought, if a certain event happens, all ills would be cured. Everyone was wrong."

Lien An: "Through the education we got in the north, we understood what we had to do"

Xuan: "There was so much hatred. We could not stay indifferent; something had to be done"

Oanh: "'French are very nice in France, and very colonialist in the colonies.' Americans were exactly the same"

Reuniting.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Norland, Patricia. Saigon sisters

ISBN:

9781501749735

1501749730

OCLC:

1123184432