Dumb Luck : A Novel by Vu Trong Phung (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory)
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Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck--by the controversial and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung--is a bitter satire of the rage for modernization in Vietnam during the late colonial era. First published in Hanoi during 1936, it follows the absurd and unexpected rise within colonial society of a street-smart vagabond named Red-haired Xuan. As it charts Xuan's fantastic social ascent, the novel provides a panoramic view of late colonial urban social order, from the filthy sidewalks of Hanoi's old commercial quarter to the gaudy mansions of the emergent Francophile northern upper classes. The transformation of traditional Vietnamese class and gender relations triggered by the growth of colonial capitalism represents a major theme of the novel.
Dumb Luck: A Novel by Vu Trong Phung (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory),Peter Zinoman,Nguyen Nguyet Cam,University of Michigan Press,0472068040,20th century,Asia - General,Asian - General,Ethnic Studies - General,Fiction,Fiction - General,History,Literary,Literary Criticism,Literature: Classics,Social change,Vietnam,Vietnamese Literature,ASIA,Modern fiction,Social Science / Ethnic Studies,Vietnamese
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