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Séminaire « Mémoires d’Indochine » 2017 : séance 7

Année universitaire 2017-2018 / Master Asie Orientale Contemporaine (ASIOC) / Semestre 1

ENS de Lyon / Sciences Po Lyon

Mémoires d’Indochine :

Récits de vie, histoire et littérature : connexions et déconnexions

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Expériences métisses

Séance 7 : mercredi 15 novembre 2017– salle D4.024

Cette dernière séance du séminaire est consacrée à la question des métis en Indochine sous la colonisation française puis pendant la guerre du Viêt-Nam. En compagnie de Nastassia Sersté nous évoquerons les destins d’enfants métis à travers plusieurs œuvres, roman ou récits autobiographiques. Nous nous positionnerons ainsi du côté de celles et ceux qui furent marginalisés ou discriminés du fait de leur double appartenance culturelle ou sociale.

La seconde partie du séminaire, dédiée aux exposés oraux, reviendra sur la question du déroulement de la guerre du Viêt-Nam à travers l’expérience sud-coréenne et l’analyse du long documentaire de Ken Burns et de Lynn Novick qui a fait débat.

Nastassia Sersté est historienne, reçue à l’agrégation d’histoire en 2015. Elle a fait ses études en Belgique à l’Université catholique de Louvain. En 2016, elle a commencé son doctorat à l’Université de Rouen (France) dans le cadre du projet international et interdisciplinaire ChiBOW (Children Born of War – Past, Present and Future) soutenu par l’Union Européenne au sein du programme Marie Curie Horizon2020. Sa recherche porte sur les Enfants de la Guerre du Vietnam (1955-1975) accueillis en France, en particulier l’expérience de vie des enfants métis nés de père soldat étranger et de mère locale vietnamienne. Ainsi, son étude touche principalement aux domaines de l’histoire diplomatique, l’histoire internationale, l’histoire culturelle, l’histoire sociale et de moindre mesure l’histoire militaire. Sa méthodologie combine travail archivistique et Histoire orale.

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Exposés oraux


  • Hwang Sok-Yong, L’ombre des armes, Paris, Éditions Zulma, 2003.

Exposé de Julia Fournier

Présentation de l’éditeur : Zulma

En pleine guerre du Viêt Nam, Ahn Yeong-kyu, jeune caporal de l’armée coréenne, est affecté à Da Nang, au département d’enquête des forces alliées. Il est chargé de la surveillance du marché noir, qui fait rage…


  • Documentaire The Vietnam War de Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, PBS en association avec ARTE France, 2017.

Exposé de Manon Barret

Site de l’éditeur dédié au film : PBS

Présentation du film documentaire à Columbia University : The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick


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Sources mobilisées :

Duyên Anh, La colline de Fanta, Paris, Pierre Belfond, 1989, ouvrage réédité par Fayard, coll. “Les enfants du fleuve”, 1995 (Traduit du vietnamien par Tran Van Nghiêm et Ghislain Ripault) et adapté au cinéma par Rachid Bouchared, Poussières de vie (1994), bande-annonce ci-dessous.

Kim Lefèvre, Métisse Blanche, Paris, B. Barrault, 1989, L’Aube poche, 1989, réédité chez Phébus, 2008.

Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood, Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 2002. Ouvrage traduit en français sous le titre La nuit nous a surpris (Denoël, 2001).

 

Image “à la une” : photos de Kim Lefèvre et de Kien Nguyen enfants en couverture de leur récit autobiographique © DR

Ben Valentine : Photographing the Forgotten Vietnamese Widows of Japanese WWII Soldiers

[ndlr] Signalement d’un article intéressant sur une exposition photographique de Phan Quang à Ho Chi Minh-Ville.

When we talk about Japan and Vietnam in the 1940s, we discuss World War II, invasions, colonialism, and other monumental events that unfolded in this part of the world, but sent ripples across the globe. These grand historical narratives are crude tools used to summarize — but that never fully explain — what happened. In Vietnam, as in most countries, the way we remember such histories is embedded with propaganda. The stories we don’t tell, the names we forget, the people we don’t eulogize are greater in number by far than the ones we do. Vietnamese conceptual artist Phan Quang’s new series on view at Ho Chi Minh City’s Blanc Art Space, Re/Cover, is an evocative micro-history lost to most textbooks, but important nonetheless.

In 2011, Phan began researching Vietnamese women who had children with Japanese soldiers between 1940 and 1955. Although Japan was defeated and officially left Vietnam in 1945, some soldiers stayed behind until 1954–55, when their government demanded their return. Within that short window of time, when the whole world was at war and then struggling to rebuild, some Vietnamese women and Japanese soldiers fell in love and had children. While Vietnamese history decries and demonizes the invasion, and would try to ostracize these children as the products of prostitution or rapes by invaders, Phan began to find very different stories, many of them touching stories of love and remembrance, stories that did not fit into the dominant narrative.

Lire la suite : Hyperallergic, 19/07/2016.

Phan Quang’s Re/Cover is on view at Blanc Art Gallery (57 D Tu Xuong Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) through July 20.

Image “à la une” : Phan Quang, “Re/Cover no. 5” (2013) © Phan Quang

Sascha Wölck, Komplexe Körper: Con lai Mỹ. Identitätsverhandlungen, Fremdbilder und gesellschaftliche Positionierungen von Besatzungskindern in Vietnam [parution]

[ndlr] Parution de l’ouvrage de Sascha Wölck basé sur sa thèse de doctorat soutenue à l’European University Viadrina de Francfort (Oder) sous la direction des Professeurs Konstanze Jungbluth et Werner Schiffauer. Rare étude sur les métis Américano-Vietnamiens. Présentation de l’auteur.

Sascha Wölck, Komplexe Körper: Con lai Mỹ. Identitätsverhandlungen, Fremdbilder und gesellschaftliche Positionierungen von Besatzungskindern in Vietnam [The Complex Body: Con lai My. Identity negotiations, foreign images and social positioning of children of servicemen in Vietnam], Berlin, Regiospectra, 2016.

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Abstract:

One aspect of the Vietnam War which so far has attracted little attention in area studies and human sciences is that during the years of warfare, tens of thousands of con lai Mỹ children of American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers were born. The end of the Republic of Vietnam and the subsequent withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam marked a profound change in the life of the majority of con lai Mỹ. After the reunification, they were increasingly associated with a specific breach of racist norms and labelled as offspring of absent fathers.

The marginal interest in their biographies and experiences is inexplicable, not only because they simply were so many, but also because they were significant witnesses to the Vietnam War and the post-war era, as well as observers and part of the construction of a national identity and of changing/changeless social norms in Vietnam.

Stuart Hall argues that there is no racism that can be understood as a universal characteristic of human societies, but rather that there are only specific forms of racism. Following his notion, I connect the discrimination that con lai Mỹ faced to social dynamics in post war Vietnam until the present day. Their experiences of discrimination can give perspectives on political and social conditions in Vietnam, which have changed tremendously since the end of the war in 1975.

In this dissertation, I identify processes that led to the representation of con lai Mỹ as deviants from society and examine specific forms of discrimination. In doing so, I investigate the further implications these constructions and attributions have had and still have on the social reality of many con lai Mỹ by conducting qualitative semi-structured interviews. So far, I have found three social environments particularly interesting: publicity, family and state. Each of these environments reacted specifically to their presence.

This dissertation is based on two residencies in Vietnam between 2012 and 2014, during which I conducted interviews in Đà Nẵng and Hồ-Chí-Minh-City. My basic questions are: What forms of discrimination did con lai Mỹ experience in different social situations in Vietnam? Is there a relationship between these experiences and broader social conditions in Vietnam? And if so, how is this relation structured? What are its characteristic features? How can one describe their daily life and position in society today?

Sascha Wölck is a cultural theorist and regional scientist with a focus on Southeast Asia. He is the author of a variety of scientific papers and journalistic publications concerning modern Vietnamese society.

Source : Regiospectra

A US soldier searches for his Vietnamese son – by Sue Lloyd Roberts

[ndlr] 40 ans après la guerre, un Américain, vétéran du Viêt-Nam part à la recherche de son fils à Ho Chi Minh-Ville. Un périple qui le mène de Saigon au New Mexico aux États-Unis. Reportage et article de Sue Lloyd Roberts.

Thousands of children were fathered by American servicemen during the Vietnam war. Now in their 60s and 70s, some veterans are desperate to find the sons and daughters they have never known.

A tall, thin American wearing a straw hat wanders through the narrow streets of Ho Chi Minh City, clutching a photo album. At his side is a Vietnamese interpreter and fixer, Hung Phan, who has helped dozens of former American soldiers locate their long-lost children over the last 20 years. His latest client, the American under the straw hat, is Jerry Quinn. He has come to Vietnam to find his son.

Read more : BBC News, 26/04/2014.

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Jerry and his girlfriend, Brandy, before they were parted © 2014 BBC

 

Philippe Peycam : Métissage urbain dans le Saigon des années 1920 [séminaire IAO – 26/09/2013]

[ndlr] Séminaire de l’IAO : “Métissage urbain dans le Saigon des années 1920, ou les origines d’une culture publique vietnamienne de contestation” par Philippe Peycam, Directeur de l’International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS). Jeudi 26 septembre 2013, Salle de réunion de l’IAO (R66), de 14h à 15h30h.

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