Format:
1 Online-Ressource (215 p.)
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ISBN:
9789819910434
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9819910439
Series Statement:
Global Vietnam
Content:
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
Note:
The Ontological Dialogue Between Martin Heidegger and Zen Buddhism
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Bibliography -- Continental Philosophy and Buddhism in the Journal Tư Tưởng (Thought), 1967-1975 -- Introduction -- Thích Minh Châu, East/West Connections, and a Pacifist Way Forward -- Ngô Trọng Anh (b. 1926), Mahayana, and Being -- Lê Tôn Nghiêm (1926-1993), Heidegger, and the Decline of Western Thought -- Ngô Trọng Anh (b. 1926), Thích Chơn Hạnh (b. 1943), and Nietzsche -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Reception of Western Feminism in Feminist Literature in Urban South Vietnam 1955-1975
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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
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The Rise of a Generation of Female Writers in the South Vietnamese Sociocultural and Literary Context 1955-1975 -- Manifestations of Feminist Awareness in Works of Female Writers in South Vietnam During the Period 1955-1975 -- Female Writers' Self-Awareness -- Female Characters in the Subjective Role -- Awareness of the Feminine Individual Self -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Rewriting the History of Vietnamese Children's Literature: Portrayals of Children in South Vietnamese Literature -- Introduction -- The "Outcast Child" Character -- The "Wanderer" Character -- The "Unhappy Child" Character
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The "Innocent Child" Character -- The "Dreamy Child" Character -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Wave of Existentialist Feminism in South Vietnamese Literature (1955-1975) -- Introduction -- Receipt of Western Thoughts-Existentialism and Feminism -- Controversial Issues of Women's Writing in Vietnam -- Expressions of Existential Feminist Perception in Female Writers' Compositions Regarding the Writing Concept -- Existential Topics -- Experimentation and Establishment of a Female Writing Style -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Existentialist Elements in Nguyễn Đình Toàn's Literary Works
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About Nguyễn Đình Toàn -- Youth and the Awareness of Absurdity -- Choosing Existence -- Writing Style -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Vũ Hạnh (1926-2021)-A Typical Left-Leaning Writer -- Introduction -- Propaganda Strategy in Vũ Hạnh's Short Stories -- Propaganda Content in Vũ Hạnh's Short Stories -- Bibliography -- Phạm Công Thiện's Ontological Dialogue with Martin Heidegger and Henry Miller -- A Shooting Star Over the Vietnam War -- Phạm Công Thiện's Life -- The Friendship with Henry Miller -- After Returning to South Vietnam
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789819910427
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Engelbert, Thomas Reading South Vietnam's Writers Singapore : Springer,c2023 ISBN 9789819910427
Language:
English
Keywords:
Viêt nam
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Literatur
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Publizistik
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Europa
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Philosophie
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Rezeption
Author information:
Engelbert, Thomas 1961-
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