Allegories of the vietnamese past : unification and the production of a modern historical identity /

Allegories of the vietnamese past : unification and the production of a modern historical identity /

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Author / Creator:	Wilcox, Wynn, 1974-
Imprint:	New Haven, CT : Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 2011.
Description:	x, 211 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Monograph 61 / Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monograph series (Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies) ; no. 61.
Subject:	Vietnamese reunification question (1954-1976) Vietnamese reunification question (1954-1976) Nguyễn Dynasty (Vietnam) Tây Sơn Dynasty (Vietnam) Vietnam -- History. Vietnam -- History -- Tây Sơn dynasty, 1788-1802. Vietnam -- History -- Nguyễn dynasty, 1802-1945. Vietnam. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8736402

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ISBN:	9780938692973 (hbk.) 0938692976 (hbk.) 0938692968 (pbk.) 9780938692966 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"In order to legitimate a particular ideal, such as the concept of a nation, various historians have embellished or even fabricated certain episodes in history to bolster a preferred vision of Vietnamese nationalism and to provide an ideological justification for their favored regime. This study proposes that the interpretation of historical allegories can elucidate the ideologies of unification and identity more effectively than resorting to a simple empirical approach to the past."--

Table of Contents:

History, allegory, and the production of Vietnamese national identity
A bishop and a prince
Minh Mạng, the West, and the Xenophobia allegory
Two poets and the Tây Sơn dynasty
Allegories of unification and the US-Vietnam war
In the same sampan--the allegory of Bùi Viện.