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
"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"--
