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The Ambiguous Allure of the West : Traces of the Colonial in Thailand /
The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present and highlights the value of postcolonial analysis for studying the ambiguities, inventions, and accommodations with the West that continue to enrich Thai culture. Si...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword : the names and repetitions of postcolonial history / Dipesh Chakrabarty
- Introduction. The allure of ambiguity : the "west" and the making of Thai identities / Rachel V. Harrison
- 1. The ambiguities of semicolonial power in Thailand / Peter A. Jackson
- 2. An ambiguous intimacy : Farang as Siamese Occidentalism / Pattana Kitiarsa
- 3. Competitive colonialisms : Siam and the Malay Muslim south / Tamara Loos
- 4. Mind the gap : (en)countering the west and the making of Thai identities on film / Rachel V. Harrison
- 5. Blissfully whose? Jungle pleasures, ultra-modernist cinema and the cosmopolitan Thai auteur / May Adadol Ingawanij and Richard Lowell MacDonald
- 6. Coming to terms with the west : intellectual strategies of bifurcation and post-westernism in Siam / Thongchai Winichakul
- 7. Wathakam : the Thai appropriation of Foucault's "Discourse" / Thanes Wongyannava
- 8. The conceptual allure of the west : dilemmas and ambiguities of crypto-colonialism in Thailand / Michael Herzfeld
- Afterword : postcolonial theories and Thai semicolonial hybridities / Peter A. Jackson.