Post-Mandarin : Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam
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| Title: | Post-Mandarin : Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Ben Tran |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Vietnamese literature--History and criticism, Women in literature, Masculinity in literature, Postcolonialism in literature, Gender identity in literature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9780823273133 9780823273140 9780823273164 9780823273157 |
