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| Spatializing Enlightened Civilization in the Era of Translating Vernacular Modernity: Colonial Vietnamese Intellectuals’ Adventure Tales and Travelogues, 1910s–1920s | ||
| 作者 | Chang, Yu-fen (著) |
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| 出處題名 | The Journal of Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.76 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2017.08 |
| 頁次 | 627 - 654 |
| 出版者 | Association for Asian Studies |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.asian-studies.org/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | literary nationalism; modernity; translation; văn minh; vernacularization; Vietnam |
| 摘要 | This article examines the strategy of literary spatialization employed by colonial subjects to imaginatively engage with colonial civilizing projects. It analyzes twelve adventure stories written between the 1910s and 1920s by colonial Vietnamese reformed scholars, whose lives were impacted by the pan-Asian reform movements that swept Japan, China, and Vietnam between the 1860s and 1900s. They reflected their experiences with Enlightened civilization as they were pushing for vernacularization and modernization through translating the Chinese transculturation of Japanese texts into Latin-based quốc ngữ script while constructing a national literature. Adventure tales and travelogues were considered suitable for aspiring writers to translatively imitate Western literature as presented in Chinese translation of Japanese texts. The authors negotiated with the French version of Enlightened Civilization by employing two East Asian literary tropes: the dangerous but exciting Rivers-and-Lakes World, where the protagonist ventures to search for văn minh, and the peaceful and other-worldly Peach Blossom Spring utopia, where the true qualities of văn minh are realized. These stories reveal colonial subjects’ admiration for and anxiety regarding the French mission civilisatrice, and their literary efforts to imagine a Vietnamese văn minh that would both impress and surpass the original models. |
| 目次 | Abstract 627 Introduction: Enlightened Civilization as an Imaginary Space 627 Writing Adventure Tales, Translating Vernacular Modernity 629 The Tropes: The Rivers-and-Lakes World and the Peach Blossom Spring 633 The Stories: Idyllic Wanderer's Travels, Small Daydreams, and Watermelon 635 Searching for Văn Minh in the Rivers-and-Lakes World: Nguyễn Bá Trác's An Idyllic Wanderer's Travels 636 Dreaming the Peach Blossom Văn Minh in the Rivers-and-Lakes World: Tản Đà’s Small Daydreams 642 Creating a Vietnamese Văn Minh Space: Nguyễn Trọng Thuật's Watermelon 645 Conclusion 649 List of References 652 |
| ISSN | 00219118 (P); 17520401 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817000481 |
| 點閱次數 | 139 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.06.17 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.06.17 |
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