Panel A: Dialogue between South Vietnamese and Western thought in literature - Approaches on specific writers and works (Part 1) - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hảo Thị Cao, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Đức Luận Lê, Dr. Giang Thị Hồ - Universität Hamburg
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- Literature and Journalism in the Republic of Vietnam (1955 – 1975) and the Reception of Western Thought
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Panel A: Dialogue between South Vietnamese and Western thought in literature - Approaches on specific writers and works (Part 1)
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cao Thị Hảo: Định hướng tiếp nhận lí luận và tiểu thuyết phương Tây trong “Văn học và Tiểu thuyết” của Doãn Quốc Sỹ
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lê Đức Luận: Hợp lưu tư tưởng và văn hóa trong thơ Bùi Giáng
- Dr. Hồ Thị Giang: Ảnh hưởng của triết học hiện sinh trong truyện ngắn Dương Nghiễm Mậu
The Republic of Vietnam (1955-75) had a tragical historical fate. Intellectually, however, it was a period full of various influences and exiting encounters between the cultures of Vietnam and the world, especially between East and West. Vietnamese intellectuals, trained in modern schools and universities, searched for their identity in a world full of promises and challenges. They were looking for reasons of societal instability and for a meaning of their existence. This living laboratory of ideas was closed after 1975. Many authors emigrated or were condemned to silence. In recent years, Vietnamese intellectuals both within and outside of the country are interested again in these debates and influences. The conference hopes to shed light on the social and cultural dynamics and complexities of South Vietnam.
This one-day conference examines how South Vietnam’s literary and journalistic authors perceived and were potentially influenced by thought generated in the West. This includes, but is not limited to, phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, romanticism, idealism, essentialism, Marxism, structuralism, and psychoanalytic criticism. Presentations will discuss the complex dynamics of the reception in South Vietnam of western thinkers and writers such as Albert Camus, André Gide, JeanPaul Sartre, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Martin Heidegger, Henry Miller, and John Steinbeck.
The conference emphasizes the dynamism and diversity of Western thought in individual literary texts and authors as well as among texts of different authors and different texts of the same author. Western thought migrated to Vietnam also in
different historical periods, and the same ideas were perceived in different ways.