| Disorientation Subjects: Cultural fusion.; Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.; Cultural relations in literature.; Ambivalence in literature.; Vietnamese literature (French); The close readings that form the core of the book are inflected by cultural and historical considerations, and informed by a range of primary documents that includes training manuals for colonial administrators, works of imperialist propaganda, tourist guidebooks and travel writing, and textbooks from Franco-Vietnamese schools. |