The Vietnam War in the words of the Vietnamese
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: English, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Pham, Duong Thuy Thi
issued: 2010-01-16T20:55:22Z
issued: 2006
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: The dissertation examines Vietnamese literary representations of what is known in the West as the Vietnam War. Analysis of prewar literature (1858-1945) shows that the early resistance literature, kindled by the French conquest in the late nineteenth century, reaffirmed the lý (broadly speaking, logic) of nationalism, while the changes of the 1925-1945 period highlighted the significance of tình (emotions of the heart) among members of the Việt Minh, the revolutionary organization which successfully staged the national uprising in 1945 and later defeated the French at Điện Biên Phů in 1954. On the Vietnam War, the dissertation first looks at non-fiction. Memoirs by National Liberation Front (NLF) leaders Nguyễn Thị Định and Truong Nhu Tǎng are compared and contrasted with those by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ and Trầ in Vǎn Đôn, leaders of the opposing Republic of [South] Vietnam (RVN), for their positions and reflections on the contested concepts of nationalism, communism, freedom, and democracy, which define the cause and form of the war. For fiction, the study summarizes the literary trends and philosophies that governed the different strands of Vietnamese literature during 1954-1975. Subsequently, representative fictional works by RVN and NLF writers are analyzed to explore the various stances and levels of commitment supporters of the opposing factions demonstrate toward their respective "imagined communities." It is found that differing images of the Vietnamese woman accurately reflect the different natures of the warring factions. The RVN woman is represented in the fiction of RVN writers (e.g. Võ Phiến, Nhã Ca, Mai Thào, Nguyễn Thị Thụy Vũ and Nguyễn Đình Toàn) as a passive victim of circumstances outside her control and understanding. By contrast, the NLF woman is described by NLF writers (particularly by Anh Đúc in Hòn Đất and Phan Tú in Mẫn and I) as embodying both lý and tình, the combination of which underlies the nationalist…
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note: THE VIETNAM WAR IN THE WORDS OF THE VIETNAMESE by D U O N G T H U Y T H I P H A M B.A., University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1988 Grad. Dip., LaTrobe University, Australia, 1995 M.A., La Trobe University, Australia, 1996 A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of D O C T O R O F P H I L O S O P H Y in T H E F A C U L T Y O F G R A D U A T E S T U D I E S ( E N G L I S H ) T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F B R I T I S H C O L U M B I A March 2006 © Duong Thuy Thi Pham, 2006 11 A B S T R A C T The dissertation examines Vietnamese literary representations of what is known in the West as the Vietnam War. Analysis of prewar literature (1858-1945) shows that the early resistance literature, kindled by the French conquest in the late nineteenth century, reaffirmed the ly (broadly speaking, logic) of nationalism, while the changes of the 1925-1945 period highlighted the significance of tinh (emotions of the heart) among members of the Viet Minh , the revolutionary organization which successfully staged the national uprising in 1945 and later defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. On the Vietnam War, the dissertation first looks at non-fiction. Memoirs by National Liberation Front (NLF) leaders Nguyen Thi Dinh and Truang N h u Tang are compared and contrasted with those by Nguyen Cao K y and Tran Van Don, leaders of the opposing Republic of [South] Vietnam ( R V N ) , for their positions and reflections on the contested concepts of nationalism, communism, freedom, and democracy, which define the cause and form of the war. For fiction, the study summarizes the literary trends and philosophies that governed the different strands of Vietnamese literature during 1954-1975. Subsequently, representative fictional works by R V N and N L F writers are analyzed to explore the various stances and levels of commitment supporters of the opposing factions demonstrate toward their respective "imagined communities." It is found that differing imag…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2006-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0092950
language: eng
degree discipline: English
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scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18487