160 - Ben Tran - Author and Professor at Vanderbilt University

The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen · Jun 14, 2022 · 1h 30m

Ben Tran’s research examines the politics and aesthetics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Southeast Asian, Asian American, and Anglophone literatures. As the repercussions of colonialism and decolonization, modern warfare, climate change, and globalization continue to unfold in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim, he examines how literary and cultural works depict and resist modernity’s vertiginous transformations.

His first book, Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam (Fordham UP 2017), examines how the radical 1919 displacement of the 1000-year-old…