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Post-Mandarin

Tran, Ben

2017,2020

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Modern Language Initiative,Fordham University Press,University of Virginia Press
• Subject: Asian Studies / Colonial Intellectuals / Colonial Modernity / French Colonialism / gender / Gender & Sexuality / Gender identity in literature / Gender Studies / HISTORY / General / History and criticism / Language & Literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature / Literary Studies / masculinity / Masculinity in literature / Modernism / Modernist Literature / postcolonial / Postcolonialism in literature / Realism / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies / Vietnamese Culture / Vietnamese literature / Vietnamese literature -- History and criticism / Women in literature
• ISBN: 082327313X, 9780823273133, 9780823273140, 0823273148, 9780823273164, 0823273164