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Phantasmatic Indochina : French colonial ideology in architecture, film, and literature

Author: Panivong Norindr
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
Series: Asia-Pacific.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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This reflection on colonial culture argues for an examination of "Indochina" as a fictive and mythic construct, a phantasmatic legacy of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. Panivong Norindr uses postcolonial theory to demonstrate how French imperialism manifests itself not only through physical domination of geographic entities, but also through the colonization of the imaginary. In this careful reading of  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Norindr, Panivong, 1961-
Phantasmatic Indochina.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)646104611
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Panivong Norindr
ISBN: 0822317788 9780822317784 0822317877 9780822317876
OCLC Number: 33898017
Description: x, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Indochina as Fiction --
1. Representing Indochina: The French Colonial Phantasmatic and the Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris --
2. Unruly Natives: The Indochinese Problem --
3. The "Surrealist" Counter-Exposition: La Verite sur les Colonies --
4. Indochina as "Reves-Diurnes" and Male Fantasies: Re-Mapping Andre Malraux's La Voie royale --
5. Geographic Romance: "Errances" and Memories in Marguerite Duras's Colonial Cities --
6. Filmic Memorials and Colonial Blues: Indochina in Contemporary French Cinema --
Conclusion: Retracing the Legacy of "Indochina Adventures."
Series Title: Asia-Pacific.
Responsibility: Panivong Norindr.

Abstract:

This reflection on colonial culture argues for an examination of "Indochina" as a fictive and mythic construct, a phantasmatic legacy of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. Panivong Norindr uses postcolonial theory to demonstrate how French imperialism manifests itself not only through physical domination of geographic entities, but also through the colonization of the imaginary. In this careful reading of architecture, film, and literature, Norindr lays bare the processes of fantasy, desire, and nostalgia constituent of French territorial aggression against Indochina.

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