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Book SynopsisPost-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.
Trade Review"Post-Mandarin is a rich, rewarding, and ground-breaking study of a key moment in the development of modern Vietnamese literature." -- -Christopher GoGwilt Fordham University "A lucid, well-conceived, and elegantly written monograph that presents a literary history and analysis of the "post-mandarin" aesthetic modernism in colonial Vietnam, rethinking modernity alongside, yet beyond, the customary European model." -- -Lisa Lowe Tufts University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Post-Mandarin 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 Post-mandarin Literature Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
