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Sensing Vietnam: Melodramas of Nation from Colonialism to Market Reform

Abstract

This dissertation traces the affective functions of popular and political discourse in Vietnamese postcolonial and post/socialist ideological formation. Looking at melodrama not only as a theatrical genre but also a mode of political discourse in twentieth-century Vietnam, I argue that state power is produced through the melodramatic mode, a mode that simultaneously generates a multiplicity of meanings and possibilities of action for both producers and spectators.

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