| Description |
1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Series |
Global Vietnam |
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Global Vietnam
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- An Unprejudiced Education and the Development of Literature in South Vietnam in 1954-1975 -- Academic Freedom -- The Changing Nature of Liberal Education -- Open Education and the Development of Literature in South Vietnam -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Vietnamese Personalism: The Communitarian Humanism of the Early South Vietnamese State -- Introduction -- Christianity, Communism, and Capitalism -- Personalism in South Vietnam -- Personalism and Vietnamese Communism -- Personalism and the Strategic Hamlet Campaign -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This edited book examines how South Vietnams (formerly the Republic of Vietnam 1955-1975) literary and journalistic writers were perceived and - potentially - influenced by Western thought, led by thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Martin Heidegger, Hermann Hesse, Edmund Husserl, Stefan Zweig, Graham Greene, and Somerset Maugham. The book reveals the dynamism and diversity of Western thought in individual literary texts, as well as among the authors themselves. The volume considers how writers and their texts engaged with issues that are socially, culturally, politically, and philosophically significant to Vietnam and beyond, past and present. This approach to South Vietnams literary and journalistic tradition enables an alternative plural, inclusive view of the significance of these texts, which are shown to be neither exclusively anti-Communist nor bourgeois individualist (c nhn tiu t sn), as they have so often been interpreted both in and outside of Vietnam. Such an interpretation problematically retains the marginal position of South Vietnams literature in mainstream Vietnamese literature, and in the literatures of the host countries where these Vietnamese authors have migrated, settled, and continued to write following the 'Fall of Saigon'. This volume presents itself as a key text for those studying Asian and postcolonial literatures, as well as scholars in the humanities researching Vietnam its history, politics, society, and culture |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 17, 2023) |
| Subject |
Vietnamese literature -- 20th century -- Western influences -- History and criticism
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Authors, Vietnamese -- 20th century -- Western influences
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Engelbert, Thomas.
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Pham, Chi P.
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| ISBN |
9789819910434 |
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9819910439 |
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