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- Title
Careless and Carless Natives: Automobile Accidents and the Project of Modernity in French Indochina.
- Authors
Vu, Linh D.
- Abstract
Examining a number of reports and poems on car accidents in three periodicals, Thần Chung, Thanh Nghệ Tĩnh Tân Văn, and Đuốc Nhà Nam, published around 1930, this research note demonstrates how some Vietnamese intellectuals constructed the notion of car accident victims as the premodern Other, unfit for modern Vietnam. This construction is examined in three sections: (1) profiling of car accident victims as unfit candidates for modernity, (2) the establishment of an arbitrary legality/illegality discourse in these reports, and (3) the impractical advice on how to use the road in a poetry contest hosted by Thanh Nghệ Tin Tân Văn.
- Subjects
VIETNAM; LITERATURE &; history; NINETEEN thirties; VIETNAMESE periodicals; TRAFFIC accidents; AUTOMOBILES in literature; VICTIMS in literature; MODERNITY; IMPERIALISM &; literature; INTELLECTUALS; VIETNAM in literature; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2012, Vol 27, Issue 2, p328
- ISSN
0217-9520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1355/sj27-2f