Disturbing conventions : decentering Thai literary cultures /

"An interdisciplinary collection that seeks to explore Thai literature in the wider context of the global perspectives, themes and debates within the study of world literature"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harrison, Rachel V. (Editor), Thanapol Limapichart
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : decentering Siam/Thailand in Southeast Asia and the world / Thongchai Winichakul
  • Introduction : theoretical f(r)ictions: cultures of criticism, modes of colonialism and Thai literary studies / Rachel V. Harrison
  • The making of the Thai canon : semicoloniality, print capitalism, and the reconfiguration of cultural authority / Thanapol Limapichart
  • Through the literary looking glass : Vajiravudh's writings and Siam's negotiations with the imperial west / Thosaeng Chaochuti
  • Mummies, sex and sand : Bangkok gothic and the adventure fiction of "Victorian" Siam / Rachel V. Harrison
  • Luk Isan (A child of the North East) : techniques of composition and issues of cultural nationalism / Nopphorn Prachakul
  • Orientalisation from within and consuming the modern world : rural-urban contact in Thai popular literature of the 1970s / Janit Feangfu
  • New readings of the verdict and Somsong's appeal / Chusak Pattarakulvanit
  • Feminist perspectives in the analysis of the modern Thai novel / Kham Phaka (Chiangmai University, Chiangmai)
  • Gender, sexuality and family in old Siam : women and men in Khun Chang Khun Phaen / Chris Baker and Pasuk Pongphaichit
  • Cosmopolitanism and its limits in contemporary Thai novels / Suradech Chotiudompant
  • Thai literature as world literature / Chusak Pattarakulvanit, Ben Tran, Suradech Chotiudompant and Rachel V. Harrison
  • Disturbing crossings : the unhomely, the unworldly and the question of method in approaches to world literature / Ayman El-Desouky.