FitzGerald constructed Vietnamese culture as postmodern in her very mode of describing it

Evidence

In her valorization of and emphasis on the historical specificity, particularity, fluidity, and embodied difference of the North Vietnamese and nlf, their incorporation, refunctioning, and resignification of modern technology into local, particular cultural practices, at the expense of the hierarchical, traditionalist features of Vietnamese culture and society, she in fact constructs them as postmodern (I would emphasize here that this is her construction), with, as postmodernity has, the mark of modernity on their culture. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 747

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: FitzGerald’s antiwar case was built on postmodern critique of abstraction — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 710; The I Ching’s fluidity-changes cosmology prefigured the postmodern worldview. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 722; Officials’ generalization of the NLF to a category obscured its reality — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 711 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernist theorists conflate describing cultural change with celebrating it #corroborates (0.78)