Post-Mandarin : : Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam / / Ben Tran.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Tran, Ben,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 Modern Vietnamese Aesthetics -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index