The ambiguous allure of the west : traces of the colonial in Thailand /
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Other Authors: | , |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press : Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications,
2010.
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Edition: | [US version]. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword:The Names and Repetitions of Postcolonial History; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Note on Transliteration and Referencing; Introduction: The Allure of Ambiguity: The "West" and the Making of Thai Identities; 1. The Ambiguities of Semicolonial Power in Thailand; 2. An Ambiguous Intimacy: Farang as Siamese Occidentalism; 3. Competitive Colonialisms: Siam and the Malay Muslim South; 4. Mind the Gap: (En)countering the West and the Making of Thai Identities on Film; 5. Blissfully Whose? Jungle Pleasures, Ultra-modernist Cinema and the Cosmopolitan Thai Auteur.