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 (178 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

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 Modern Vietnamese Aesthetics

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"The modern language initiative"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780823273164

0823273164

OCLC:

961105732