Disturbing Conventions
Subtitle: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781783480142
Subjects: Thai literature; Literature, history and criticism
Table of contents: title: Foreword : decentering Siam/Thailand in Southeast Asia and the world / Thongchai Winichakul; title: Introduction : theoretical f(r)ictions: cultures of criticism, modes of colonialism and Thai literary studies / Rachel V. Harrison; title: The making of the Thai canon : semicoloniality, print capitalism, and the reconfiguration of cultural authority / Thanapol Limapichart; title: Through the literary looking glass : Vajiravudh's writings and Siam's negotiations with the imperial west / Thosaeng Chaochuti; title: Mummies, sex and sand : Bangkok gothic and the adventure fiction of "Victorian" Siam / Rachel V. Harrison; title: Luk Isan (A child of the North East) : techniques of composition and issues of cultural nationalism / Nopphorn Prachakul; title: Orientalisation from within and consuming the modern world : rural-urban contact in Thai popular literature of the 1970s / Janit Feangfu; title: New readings of the verdict and Somsong's appeal / Chusak Pattarakulvanit; title: Feminist perspectives in the analysis of the modern Thai novel / Kham Phaka (Chiangmai University, Chiangmai); title: Gender, sexuality and family in old Siam : women and men in Khun Chang Khun Phaen / Chris Baker and Pasuk Pongphaichit; title: Cosmopolitanism and its limits in contemporary Thai novels / Suradech Chotiudompant; title: Thai literature as world literature / Chusak Pattarakulvanit, Ben Tran, Suradech Chotiudompant and Rachel V. Harrison; title: Disturbing crossings : the unhomely, the unworldly and the question of method in approaches to world literature / Ayman El-Desouky