The Sword and the Pen: Life Writings by Militant-Authors of the Việt Minh and Front de Libération Nationale (FLN)

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dc.contributor.advisorOrlando, Valerie Ken_US
dc.contributor.authorHoang, Phuongen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFrench Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-08T05:40:49Z
dc.date.available2016-09-08T05:40:49Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines four life writings by militant-authors of the Việt Minh and Front de la Libération Nationale (FLN): Ngô Văn Chiêu’s Journal d’un combattant Viet-Minh (1955), Đặng Văn Việt’s De la RC 4 à la N 4: la campagne des frontières (2000), Si Azzedine’s On nous appelait fellaghas (1976), and Saadi Yacef’s two-volume La Bataille d’Alger (2002). In describing the Vietnamese and Algerian Revolutions through the perspectives of combatants who participated in their respective countries’ national liberation struggles, the texts reveal that four key factors motivated the militants and led them to believe that independence was historically inevitable: (1) a philosophical, political, and ideological framework, (2) the support of multiple segments of the local population, (3) the effective use of guerrilla and psychological warfare, and (4) military, moral, and political assistance provided by international allies. By fighting for the independence of their countries and documenting their revolutionary experiences, the four militant-authors leave their mark on the world using both the sword and the pen.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2VV4J
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18767
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiteratureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAsian studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDecolonizationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFront de Liberation Nationaleen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMemoiren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNational liberationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRevolutionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledViet Minhen_US
dc.titleThe Sword and the Pen: Life Writings by Militant-Authors of the Việt Minh and Front de Libération Nationale (FLN)en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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