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