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Literature and Nation-Building in Vietnam - The Invisibilization of the Indians (Paperback)
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Literature and Nation-Building in Vietnam - The Invisibilization of the Indians (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
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This book analyzes why Indians have been made invisible in
Vietnamese society and historiography. It argues that their
invisibilization originates in the formulaic metaphor Vietnamese
nation-makers have used to portray Indians in their quest for
national sovereignty and socialism. The book presents a complex
view on colonial legacies in Vietnam which suggests that Vietnamese
nation-makers associate Indians with colonialism and capitalism,
ultimately viewed as "non-socialist" and "non-hegemonic" state
structures. Furthermore, the book demonstrates how Vietnamese
nation-makers achieve the overriding socialist and independent goal
of historically differing Indians from Vietnamese nationalisms
whilst simultaneously making them invisible. In addition to primary
Vietnamese texts which demonstrate the performativity of language
and the Vietnamese traditional belief in writing as a sharp weapon
for national and class struggles, the author utilizes interviews
with Indians and Vietnamese authorities in charge of managing the
Indian population. Bringing to the surface the ways through which
Vietnamese intellectuals have invisibilized the Indians for the
sake of the visibility of national hegemony and prosperity, this
book will be of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian Studies and
South Asian Studies, Vietnam Studies, including nation-building,
literature, and language.
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