The Ambiguous Allure of the West : : Traces of the Colonial in Thailand / / ed. by Peter A. Jackson, Rachel V. Harrison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Chakrabarty, Dipesh,; Harrison, Rachel,; Herzfeld, Michael,; Ingawanij, May Adadol,; Jackson, Peter A.,; Kitiarsa, Pattana,; Loos, Tamara,; MacDonald, Richard Lowell,; Winichakul, Thongchai,; Wongyannava, Thanes,
• HerausgeberIn: Harrison, Rachel V.,; Jackson, Peter A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 26 illustrations

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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
• 6. Coming to Terms with the West: Intellectual Strategies of Bifurcation and Post-Westernism in Siam
• 7. Wathakam: The Thai Appropriation of Foucault's "Discourse"
• 8. The Conceptual Allure of the West: Dilemmas and Ambiguities of Crypto-Colonialism in Thailand
• Afterword: Postcolonial Theories and Thai Semicolonial Hybridities
• Notes
• Bibliography