Post-Mandarin masculinity and aesthetic modernity in colonial Vietnam / Ben Tran.
| Author/creator | Tran, Ben |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Fordham University Press, 2017. |
| Description | 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "The modern language initiative"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016014168 |
| ISBN | 9780823273133 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780823273140 (paper) |