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The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam

The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam

Nguyen, Duy Lap

Hardcover

Series: Cultural History of Modern War

Southeast Asian HistoryVietnam War

ISBN10: 1526143968
ISBN13: 9781526143969
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Dec 5 2019
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of the conflict, that of the South Vietnamese. Challenging the conventional view that the war was a struggle between the Vietnamese people and US imperialism, the study presents a wide-ranging investigation of South Vietnamese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. Beginning with a genealogy of the concept of a Vietnamese culture, as the latter emerged during the colonial period, the book concludes with a reflection on the rise of popular culture during the American intervention. Reexamining the war from the South Vietnamese perspective, The unimagined community pursues the provocative thesis that the conflict, in this early stage, was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle between two competing versions of anticolonial communism.

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