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"--
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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.