The Saigon sisters privileged women in the resistance /

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This text offers the narratives of a group of privileged women who were immersed in a French lycée and later rebelled and fought for independence, starting with France's occupation of Vietnam and continuing through US involvement and life after war ends in 1975. Tracing the lives of nine women...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Norland, Patricia (Autor)
Otros Autores: Goscha, Christopher (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, 2021.
Colección:NIU Southeast Asian series.
Cornell scholarship online.
Temas:
1946-1954
Indochinese War, 1946-1954 > Personal narratives, Vietnamese.
Indochinese War, 1946-1954 > Women > Vietnam.
Women revolutionaries > Vietnam > Biography.
Upper class women > Vietnam > Biography.
Upper class women > Political activity > Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City.
Upper class women.
Women.
Women revolutionaries.
Vietnam.
Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietname War, French Indochina, Revolution, Vietnamese women, nationalism, communism, Lycee Marie Curie, Saigon, Ho Chi Minh.
Biographies.
Personal narratives > Vietnamese.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Thanh: "We were young, our hearts beating for the cause"
  • Trang: "We were living a contradiction"
  • Minh: "Generation at a crossroads"
  • Le An: "The resistance is for me the university of life"
  • Sen: "Living in the jungle was a question of habit"
  • Tuyen: "With music, the revolution had more of a chance to succeed"
  • Lien An: "We were in a French colony but, deep down, we remained Vietnamese"
  • Xuan: "We found the ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality were not for our people"
  • Oanh: "The deciding reason I did not become a refugee was I went to study in the U.S."
  • Thanh: "We had private lives but suppressed them. But we are, after all, human beings"
  • Trang: "I was prepared for any sacrifice or risk"
  • Minh: "I led two lives"
  • Le An: "The theme of our work in putting on plays was revolution"
  • Sen: "We thought of ourselves as working for the people, not a particular party"
  • Tuyen: "Everyone thought, if a certain event happens, all ills would be cured. Everyone was wrong."
  • Lien An: "Through the education we got in the north, we understood what we had to do"
  • Xuan: "There was so much hatred. We could not stay indifferent; something had to be done"
  • Oanh: "'French are very nice in France, and very colonialist in the colonies.' Americans were exactly the same"
  • Reuniting.

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