Panel A: Dialogue between South Vietnamese and Western thought in literature - Approaches on literary movements - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vàng Anh Thái Phan, Kim Ngọc Lê, Dr. Xuân Huy Nguyễn, Nguyên Hương Trịnh Đặng, Thu Hằng Thị Nguyễn, Dr. Hải Ninh Đỗ - 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 literary movements
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thái Phan Vàng Anh and Lê Kim Ngọc: Làn sóng nữ quyền hiện sinh trong văn học miền Nam Việt Nam (1955 – 1975)
- Dr. Nguyễn Xuân Huy: “Điểm sách” hay là “vũ khí đấu tranh” và những dấu ấn của phê bình văn học miền Nam 1954 – 1975 từ góc nhìn của người trong cuộc (Vũ Hạnh)
- Trịnh Đặng Nguyên Hương: Nguyễn Đình Toàn và thế giới phi lí tự thân
- Nguyễn Thị Thu Hằng: Tiếp nhận văn học Mỹ ở miền Nam Việt Nam (1955-1975): nghiên cứu trường hợp John Steinbeck
- Dr. Đỗ Hải Ninh: Nhìn lại văn học phản chiến miền Nam giai đoạn 1954 – 1975
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.