Name/Title
Archival DocumentEntry/Object ID
2017.14dDescription
Typewriter text document with red and blue writing on topContext
The passport, photographs, and documents from the National Overseas Archives in Aix-enProvence, France, reproduced here depict Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, one of the most notable women in Vietnamese revolutionary history and the central figure of the exhibition. After years of working with Vietnamese Communist leader Hồ Chí Minh in Hong Kong, she returned to Vietnam to oppose the French government and lead the anti-colonial movement. The French National police captured her in 1940 and executed her by firing squad along with other anti-colonists. While schools, streets, and hotels in Vietnam bear her name, the historical record of Minh Khai is thin and stitched together from bits of information salvaged from French police reports and interrogation documents. Hương Ngô’s research of Minh Khai serves not to close the gaps in the historical record, but to explore the absences and find new ways to tell the impossible stories of gender, colonialism, and violence contained in them.Acquisition
Accession
2017.12-14Source or Donor
Ngô, HươngAcquisition Method
PurchaseCredit Line
Courtesy of the artistEthnography
Notes
Vietnam
France
North AmericanLexicon
Getty AAT
Concept
government (political concept), political concepts, social science concepts, security, safety-related concepts, functional concepts (general)Hierarchy Name
Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)Facet
Associated Concepts FacetLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Archives, Government, Colonialism, RevolutionariesDimensions
Dimension Description
overallWidth
13-5/8 inLength
10 in