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Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam

Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam

Tran, Ben

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Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0823273148
ISBN13: 9780823273140
Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
Published: Jan 2 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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