Lioness in Bloom

Modern Thai Fiction about Women

AvSusan Fulop Kepner

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexuality, spousal abuse, gender oppression. Others display a scintillating sense of humor. They touch on many themes--injustice, the heartlessness of society, loneliness, the difficult choices that life presents. Susan Kepner's lyrical, faithful translations preserve the tenor and resonances of these voices, many of which will be heard for the first time by English-speaking readers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-07-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Voices from Asia
Antal sidor:281
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520089037

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Susan Fulop Kepner has been a Lecturer in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1991. Among the works she has translated from Thai are Letters from Thailand by Botan (1977) and A Child of the Northeast by Kampoon Boontawee (1987). She has also written a book of original prose poems entitled Somebody's Mother (1987).

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on TransliterationIntroductionPART ONE: MOTHERSContentsGrandmother the ProgressiveJunlada PhakdiphuminDeep in the Heart of a MotherWat WanlayankulFrom People of QualityDok Mai SotFrom A Child of the NortheastKampoon BoontaweeMatsiiPART TWO: WIVES AND LOVERSSnakes Weep, Flowers SmileSuwanee SuklwnthaFrom Behind the PaintingSri BuraphaFrom That Woman's Name is BoonrawdBotanDeaf SimPrabhassorn SevikulA Pot That Scouring Will Not SaveAnchanWhen She Was a Major WifeSubha DevakulSai-roong's Dream of LoveSri Dao RuangFrom This Human VesselKrisna Asoksin PART THREE: DAUGHTERSThe Dancing GirlUssiri DhammachotiGreenieManop ThanomsriA Mote of Dust on the Face of the EarthPreechapoul BloonchuayAppendix: Kings of the Chakri DynastyBibliographySuggested ReadingSources of PublicationsIndex