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

• 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
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823273164
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823273164?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ben Tran.

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.