TAILIEUCHUNG - Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung as a colonial urban narrative

Employing Bakhtin's concept of chronotope, this article examines the narrative construction of settings in the novel Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung. Identifying the core chronotope in Dumb Luck – the colonial city of Hanoi – as the juxtaposition, bifurcation and interference between two sub-chronotopes – the sidewalk and the French residence, with cultural behaviors that epitomize a rural world in disintegration and a urban world in emergence, respectively. | I TXT TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC SƯ PHẠM TP HỒ CHÍ MINH HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION TẠP CHÍ KHOA HỌC JOURNAL OF SCIENCE ISSN khoa học xã hội và nhân văn social SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 1859-3100 Tập 16 Số 7 2019 53-63 Vol. 16 No. 7 2019 53-63 Email tapchikhoahoc@hcmue. edu. vn Website http tckh. hcmue. edu. vn Research Article DUMB LUCK BY VU TRONG PHUNG AS A COLONIAL URBAN NARRATIVE Pham Ngoc Lan Ho Chi Minh City University of Education Corresponding author Pham Ngoc Lan Email lanpn@ Received March 08 2019 Revised April 10 2019 Accepted May 15 2019 ABSTRACT Employing Bakhtin s concept of chronotope this article examines the narrative construction of settings in the novel Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung. Identifying the core chronotope in Dumb Luck - the colonial city of Hanoi - as the juxtaposition bifurcation and interference between two sub-chronotopes - the sidewalk and the French residence with cultural behaviors that epitomize a rural world in disintegration and a urban world in emergence respectively I suggest that Dumb Luck marks not only the first appearance of a purely urban space in Vietnamese literature but also the first appearance of a truly urban narrative which presents a comprehensive cultural consciousness of urban life. This narrative structure and cultural consciousness characterize the disturbing transformation and modernization of the Eastern world under the brutal imposition of Western culture in the first half of the 20th century. Keywords chronotope Bakhtin urbanism colonialism postcolonialism Vu Trong Phung Dumb Luck narratology cultural studies. Alas for our people Civilization ruined Dumb Luck - Vu Trong Phung 1. The urban city as a narrative chronotope The Russian theorist Mikhain Bakhtin coined the term chronotope which he describes as the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature Bakhtin . The narrative text is constructed not only by the three-dimensional

• Ngôn ngữ học
• Employing Bakhtins concept
• Dumb Luck
• Cultural studies
• Novel Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung
• Cultural conflicts
• BMC Public Health
• Cross cultural study
• Work family conflict
• Self rated health
• Civil workers