The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand

Published by Cornell University Press 2010

The Ambiguous Allure of the West

Traces of the Colonial in Thailand

Edited by: Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson
Preface by: Dipesh Chakrabarty

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501719219

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The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present.

Reviews

Tony Day, coeditor of Clearing a Space: Postcolonial Readings of Modern Indonesian Literature:

This excellent collection of essays represents a major advance in the application of Western postcolonial theory to the study of Asian history and culture. No other book is more successful at shattering the 'uniqueness' of Thailand, or of demonstrating the many ways in which Southeast Asia is comparable to the rest of the world.

Ian Brown, Dean of Arts and Humanities, School of Oriental and African Studies, London:

The Ambiguous Allure of the West finally and decisively pulls Thai studies away from its long-dominant introspection and its focus on an alleged Thai exceptionalism and sites it firmly in mainstream comparative and theoretical contexts. Strikingly original in conception and sure-footed in execution, this is an outstanding collection of essays.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword: The Names and Repetitions of Postcolonial History Dipesh Chakrabarty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxi
Note on Transliteration and Referencing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxiv
Introduction. The Allure of Ambiguity: The "West" and the Making of Thai Identities Rachel Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Ambiguities of Semicolonial Power in Thailand Peter A. Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
2. An Ambiguous Intimacy: Farang as Siamese Occidentalism Pattana Kitiarsa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
3. Competitive Colonialisms: Siam and the Malay Muslim South Tamara Loos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
4. Mind the Gap: (En)countering the West and the Making of Thai Identities on Film Rachel Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
5. Blissfully Whose? Jungle Pleasures, Ultra-modernist Cinema and the Cosmopolitan Thai Auteur May Adadol Ingawanij and Richard Lowell MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
6. Coming to Terms with the West: Intellectual Strategies of Bifurcation and Post-Westernism in Siam Thongchai Winichakul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
7. Wathakam: The Thai Appropriation of Foucault's "Discourse" Thanes Wongyannava Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
8. The Conceptual Allure of the West: Dilemmas and Ambiguities of Crypto-Colonialism in Thailand Michael Herzfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Afterword: Postcolonial Theories and Thai Semicolonial Hybridities Peter A. Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 26
- Other: 26 illustrations
Keywords: Anthropology; Asian Studies; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: May 31, 2018
ISBN: 9781501719219