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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Autoethnography and Post-­Mandarin Masculinity

Pornography as Realism, Realism as Aesthetic Modernity

The Sociological Novel and Anticolonialism

I Speak in the Third Person

Queer Internationalism and Modern Vietnamese Aesthetics

Conclusion.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-7318-0

0-8232-7315-6

0-8232-7317-2