Phantasmatic Indochina - French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film, and Literature

Norindr's radical revaluation of Indochina as a fictive and mythic structure expands the scope of geographic and political concerns into the broader speculative sphere of cultural identity. Indochina becomes for him a repository of images, a space whose commemorative and iconographic character brings together literary, filmic and architectural forms of cultural evidence. Remarkable for its lucidity and finesse, "Phantasmatic" "Indochina" constitutes one of the finest contributions to the field of post-colonial and cultural studies."--Dalia Judovitz, Emory University

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Indochina as FIction 1

1. Representing Indochina: The French Colonial Phantasmatic and the Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris 14

2. Unruly Natives: The Indochinese Problem 34

3. The "Surrealist" Counter-Exposition: La Vérité sur les Colonies 52

4. Indochina as "Rêves-Diurnes" and Male Fantasies: Re-Mapping André Malraux's La Voie royale 72

5. Geographic Romance: "Errances" and Memories in Marguerite Duras's Colonial Cities 107

6. Filmic Memorials and Colonial Blues: Indochina in Contemporary French CInema 13

Conclusion: Retracing the Legacy of "Indochina Adventures" 155

Notes 159

Works Cited 181

Index 199

About the author

Panivong Norindr

Summary

Analyzing the first Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris in 1931, this title shows how the exhibition's display of architecture gave a vision to the colonies that justified France's cultural prejudices, while stimulating the desire for further expansionism.

Product details

• Authors: Norindr, Panivong Norindr, Panivong Norindr
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.1997
• EAN: 9780822317784
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1778-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Asien, Kulturwissenschaften, Kunst, allgemein, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus, Pazifischer Ozean