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A mythographical journey to modernity: The textual and symbolic transformations of the Hùng Kings founding myths

Journal of Southeast Asian studies (Singapore), 2013-06, Vol.44 (2), p.315-337 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    A mythographical journey to modernity: The textual and symbolic transformations of the Hùng Kings founding myths
  • Author: Nguyen, Dieu Thi
  • Subjects: 15th century ; Asia ; Criticism ; Dietary fiber ; Ethnology ; Exploitation ; Heroism & heroes ; Historiography ; Leadership ; Modernism ; Modernity ; Myth ; Mythology ; Mythology and world views ; Myths ; Myths and cosmologies ; Political aspects ; Religion, magic, witchcraft ; Symbolism ; Vietnamese culture ; Vietnamese history ; Yeast
  • Is Part Of: Journal of Southeast Asian studies (Singapore), 2013-06, Vol.44 (2), p.315-337
  • Description: This paper analyses the textual-mythographical transformation of Viet origin myths from their transcription in the distant past through their exploitation for political purposes in the 1950s by scholarly elites. It attempts to demonstrate that, as early as the fifteenth century, stories about the Hùng Kings were deliberately collected and codified by members of the Việt elite, who sought to exploit their potential as catalysts of identify-formation and unification under the leadership of the imperial state. However, as a result of the confluence of two currents, that of the monarchical state's mythographical construction and that of popular, village-based, animistic worship, the Hùng Kings came to be venerated as ancestral founders of the Việt quốc in temples throughout the Red River Delta and beyond. During the French colonial and early national periods, the codified myths were the object of severe criticism and strident defence by both French and Viet scholars.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0022-4634
    EISSN: 1474-0680
    DOI: 10.1017/S002246341300009X
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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