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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.
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.
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
Environment and Narrative in Vietnam brings together essays
about Vietnam’s natural environments and environmental crises
from the perspective of culture, with particular attention to
narrative templates that have shaped perceptions and interactions
with nature on the part of different communities. The essays in
this volume explore theoretical problems in the assessment of
ecological stewardship and attitudes toward nature across cultures.
They focus on both majority (Kinh) and ethnic minority narratives
about nature and seek to outline how different ideas of
modernization, from the French colonial project to the Marxist
understanding of nature on the part of the Communist government,
have shaped perceptions, policies, and activism regarding the
environment. The essays also highlight the tensions and confluences
between nationalist nation-building projects and economic
integration into global markets for environmental thinking over the
last half-century, and they analyze how texts from literary fiction
to contemporary news media represent different environmental
cultures in Vietnam. Taken together, the essays in Environment and
Narrative in Vietnam begin to fill a significant gap in the
understanding of environmental cultures in Asia and in the
Environmental Humanities. This is an open access book.
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