Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Nguyen, Duy Lap
Titre(s) : The unimagined community [Texte imprimé] : imperialism and culture in South Vietnam / Duy Lap Nguyen
Publication : Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2020]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (ix, 282 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection : Cultural history of modern war
Lien à la collection : Cultural history of modern war
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective
that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of the conflict, that of the
South Vietnamese. Challenging the conventional view that the war was a struggle between
the Vietnamese people and US imperialism, the study presents a wide-ranging investigation
of South Vietnamese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to
popular culture and film. Beginning with a genealogy of the concept of a Vietnamese
"culture," as the latter emerged during the colonial period, the book concludes with
a reflection on the rise of popular culture during the American intervention. Reexamining
the war from the South Vietnamese perspective, The unimagined community pursues the
provocative thesis that the conflict, in this early stage, was not an anti-communist
crusade, but a struggle between two competing versions of anticolonial communism.
Sujet(s) : Guerre du Vietnam (1961-1975) -- Vietnam (République)
Civilisation -- Vietnam (République)
Impérialisme -- Vietnam (République)
Indice(s) Dewey :
959.704 3 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Viêt-Nam - 1961-1975
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781526143976. - ISBN 1526143976. - ISBN 9781526143969 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb472153183
Notice n° :
FRBNF47215318
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Image-making and Imperialism: Sovereign, Surveillance and Spectacle
in the Vietnam War; 1. Colonialism and National Culture; 2. The Other Vietnamese Revolution:
Personalism and US Imperialism in South Vietnam; 3. Psychological Warfare and the
Society of Consumption in the South; 5. Surveillance and Spectacle in Bùi Anh Tu?n's
Z.28 Novels; 6. Sovereignty, Surveillance and Spectacle in the Saigon Fabulous Four;
Bibliography; Index
