Sex in the City: The Descent from Human to Animal in Two Vietnamese Classics of Urban Reportage

This article examines the relationship between urban space, normative sexuality and animal metaphors in two Vietnamese classics of modern reportage, namely Tam Lang’s “I Pulled a Rickshaw” (1932) and Vu Trong Phung’s “Household Servants” (1936). Both reportages are set in colonial Hanoi, and both p...

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Main Author: Richard Quang-Anh Tran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arnold Bergstraesser Institute 2020-03-01
Series:International Quarterly for Asian Studies
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Online Access:https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas/article/view/10751