Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: The Names and Repetitions of Postcolonial History vii
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Contributors xxi
6. Note on Transliteration and Referencing xxiv
7. Introduction. The Allure of Ambiguity: The "West" and the Making of Thai Identities 1
8. 1. The Ambiguities of Semicolonial Power in Thailand 37
9. 2. An Ambiguous Intimacy: Farang as Siamese Occidentalism 57
10. 3. Competitive Colonialisms: Siam and the Malay Muslim South 75
11. 4. Mind the Gap: (En)countering the West and the Making of Thai Identities on Film 93
12. 5. Blissfully Whose? Jungle Pleasures, Ultra-modernist Cinema and the Cosmopolitan Thai Auteur 119
13. 6. Coming to Terms with the West: Intellectual Strategies of Bifurcation and Post-Westernism in Siam 135
14. 7. Wathakam: The Thai Appropriation of Foucault's "Discourse" 153
15. 8. The Conceptual Allure of the West: Dilemmas and Ambiguities of Crypto-Colonialism in Thailand 173
16. Afterword: Postcolonial Theories and Thai Semicolonial Hybridities 187
17. Notes 207
18. Bibliography 223