Title: Phantasmatic Indochina
First published: 1996
Description: This reflection on colonial culture argues for an examination of "Indochina" as a fictive and mythic construct, a phantasmatic legacy of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. Panivong Norindr uses postcolonial theory to demonstrate how French imperialism manifests itself not only through physical domination of geographic entities, but also through the colonization of the imaginary.

In this careful reading of architecture, film, and literature, Norindr lays bare the processes of fantasy, desire, and nostalgia constituent of French territorial aggression against Indochina.
Subjects: Arts, French, French Arts, In art, Art, french, Arts, modern
Places: Indochina
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: NX549.A1 N66 1996