Lexington Books
Pages: 256
Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7391-0839-0 • Hardback • April 2005 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
978-0-7391-5517-2 • eBook • April 2005 • $123.50 • (£95.00)
Kathryn Robson is lecturer in the School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. Jennifer Yee is lecturer at the University of Oxford (Christ Church).
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Monuments and Memory
Chapter 3 Taj Angkor: Enshrining l'Inde in le Cambodge
Chapter 4 Representing Indochinese Sacrifice: The Temple du Souvenir Indochinois of Nogent-sur-Marne
Part 5 Transport Networks
Chapter 6 Lines of Communication in: The Thematics of Direction and Strategies of Narration in Colonial Indochina
Chapter 7 Automobiles and Anomie in French Colonial Indochina
Part 8 Tropical Angst?
Chapter 9 Disturbing the Colonial Order: Dystopia and Disillusionment in Indochina
Chapter 10 Of le Cafard and Other Tropical Threats: Disease and White Colonial Culture in Indochina
Part 11 Women in and against Empire
Chapter 12 French Women and the Empire
Chapter 13 Vietnamese New Women and the Fashioning of Modernity
Part 14 Screening Indochina
Chapter 15 Camille's Breasts: The Evolution of the Fantasy Native in Régis Wargnier's Indochine
Chapter 16 Tranh Anh Hung as Diasporic Filmaker
Part 17 Writing Indochina
Chapter 18 From Incest to Exile: Linda Lê and the Incestuous Vietnamese Immigrants
Chapter 19 "Cholen, la capitale chinoise de l'Indochine française": Rereading Marguerite Duras's (Indo)Chinese Space
Chapter 20 Playing Hardball: Linda Lê's Les Trois Parques
Chapter 21 Jean Hougron's Indochina: Fantasy and Disillusionment
France and "Indochina" is a richly suggestive exploration of the cultural dynamics of an unduly neglected part of France's former colonial empire. Its interdisciplinary optic opens up many new perspectives on French Indochina and its postcolonial aftermath, throwing valuable light on a wide range of cultural forms, including architecture, literature and film.
— Alec Hargreaves, Florida State University
This collection is a valuable contribution to studies of the French colonial encounter with Indochina, of cultural representations and, more widely, of colonial discourse.
— International Journal Of Francophone Studies
This outstanding collection combines contributions from established scholars of Francophone South-East Asia with the work of some of the most talented and original new researchers in the field. The volume explores the representation and reality of colonial Indochina and also offers an introduction to some of the most innovative Francophone writers and filmmakers of the contemporary Indochinese diaspora. By pairing rigorous historical inquiry with original cultural, literary and theoretical analyses, the essays collected here reveal the complex, ambivalent connections linking France and Indochina, as well as the postcolonial legacies of the contacts and conflicts on which these connections depend.
— Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool