Discours hybride dans le contexte colonial au Vietnam. Étude du Bulletin de la SEM

Abstract

French colonization in Vietnam is a totalizing phenomenon, which affected all life, both collective and individual. Many studies are devoted to the memories of this past era with its social contexts and its existential conditions. One of the most visible realities that this phenomenon reveals is that it has destroyed and deconstructed the old frameworks of the culture of colonized people and brought them into uncertain and ambiguous areas of identity. How do these colonized subjects express themselves in such socio-existential contexts? Is seeking to show oneself in the language of others an escape route to remove oneself from the embarrassment of this situation, by reconstructing a new topos of expression rich in exchanges and discursive interactions? This article aims to answer these fundamental questions by adopting a discourse and identity approach. We choose as a field of observation the Bulletin de la Société d’Enseignement mutuel du Tonkin (Bulletin de la SEM).