On Our Own Strength: The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam

by Martina Thucnhi Nguyen

Book Overview

On Our Own Strength examines the political activities of the most influential intellectual movement in interwar French-occupied Vietnam. The far-reaching work of the Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tự Lực Văn Đo?n) included applied design, urban reform, fashion, literature, journalism, and cartoons; its work was deeply political in both form and intent. The Group drew upon a wide range of global intellectual currents and practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824895495
• ISBN13: 9780824895495
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"