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PublisherFordham University Press

ISBN-100823273148

ISBN-139780823273140

eBay Product ID (ePID)229928845

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Book TitlePost-Mandarin : Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicAsia / Southeast Asia, Comparative Literature, Subjects & Themes / Women, Asian / General, Gender Studies

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science, History

AuthorBen Tran

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.2 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width5.9 in

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LCCN2016-014168

Reviews"A lucid, well-conceived, and elegantly written monograph that presents a literary history and analysis of the "post-mandarin" aesthetic modernism in colonial Vietnam, rethinking modernity alongside, yet beyond, the customary European model."-Lisa Lowe, Tufts University "Post-Mandarin is a rich, rewarding, and ground-breaking study of a key moment in the development of modern Vietnamese literature."-Christopher GoGwilt, Fordham University, Post-Mandarin is a rich, rewarding, and ground-breaking study of a key moment in the development of modern Vietnamese literature. -----Christopher GoGwilt, Fordham University, "A lucid, well-conceived, and elegantly written monograph that presents a literary history and analysis of the "post-mandarin" aesthetic modernism in colonial Vietnam, rethinking modernity alongside, yet beyond, the customary European model." -----Lisa Lowe, Tufts University

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal895.92209

SynopsisPost-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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPL4378.05.T64 2017