Post-Mandarin masculinity and aesthetic modernity in colonial Vietnam / Ben Tran.

Author/creator Tran, Ben
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Description178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016014168
ISBN9780823273133 (hardback)
ISBN9780823273140 (paper)