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Reading South Vietnam's Writers - The Reception of Western Thought in Journalism and Literature (1st ed. 2023)
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Reading South Vietnam's Writers - The Reception of Western Thought in Journalism and Literature (1st ed. 2023)
Series: Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community
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This edited book examines how South Vietnam’s (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 Vietnam’s 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†(cá nhân tiểu tư sản), as they have so
often been interpreted both in and outside of Vietnam. Such an
interpretation problematically retains the marginal position of
South Vietnam’s 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.Â
General
Imprint: |
Springer Verlag, Singapore
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Country of origin: |
Singapore |
Series: |
Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Editors: |
Thomas Engelbert
• Chi P. Pham
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
207 |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
ISBN-13: |
978-981-9910-42-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
981-9910-42-0 |
Barcode: |
9789819910427 |
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