Suradech Chotiudompant
Biographic Data
| ID | 4105481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suradech Chotiudompant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suradech |
| FAMILY NAME | Chotiudompant |
| SIGNATURE | CHOTIUDOMPANT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chulalongkorn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Representation of Consumerism and Identity Formation in Contemporary Thai Literature
As contemporary Thai society has become deeply enmeshed in consumerism and capitalism, with consumption now having been integrated as a way of life, Thai literature, especially those short stories written in the past decade, has touched upon the issue of consumerism in various degrees and aspects. This essay aims to investigate two major issues. Firstly, it aims to analyze how these short stories represent consumerism, especially its mechanisms t…
Bangkok” in Contemporary Thai Literature: Globalization, Tourism, and Comsumerism
The paper aims to investigate how Bangkok is represented in contemporary Thai literature, including those works by such authors of renown as Chamlong Fangcholachit, Prabda Yoon, and Paritas Hutangkul. Through the perspectives of these contemporary authors, Bangkok has been used as a poignant setting to showcase the problems and conditions of urbanism in Thailand. The paper aims to focus on three main issues of representation, which are not comple…
The Quest and Reconstruction of Identity in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
This essay aims to explore the issue of identity quest of various characters in Haruki Murakami’s “Kafka on the Shore.” While Hoshino is portrayed as an alienated citydweller, whose identity formation depends on superficial signs produced in consumer society, Satoru Nakata’s identity is noted for its marginalized position as he is unable to make sense of capitalist logic. His viewpoint reveals a hidden side of capitalist society that glorifies su…
Comparative Literature: Recent Debates on an Imagined Discipline
Comparative literature is always a problematic discipline. Scholars from different countries and times such as René Wellek, Charles Bernheimer, Susan Bassnett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Djelal Kadir, have attempted to delimit its scope. The variety of definitions have led to ensuing problems of shifting methodologies and frameworks. If, in the early twentieth century, a scholar tended to interrogate and theorise how one distinguished compar…
From Dupin to Oedipa: Thomas Pynchon’s Parodic Take on Detective Fiction
This essay aims to investigate how Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, when juxtaposed with Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin short stories, can be read as a parodic reworking on the genre of detective fiction. By placing the works of the two authors in relation to theoretical lines of detective fiction, the essay intends to highlight how the world-views of the two authors are dis-tinctively formed, especially in terms of a hermeneutical search for ulti…
The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Golden City
Decolonization and Demystification: One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nationhood
This essay aims to explore how the interconnected issues of nationhood and national identity are treated in Gabriel García Márquez's novel Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). Through a discussion of the two basic yet complex themes of reality and history set against the exclusive backdrop of Colombian history, it is also intended to show how the author reinscribes the myth of nationhood by decentering what Jean-François Lyotard …
The Fantastic: Towards a Dynamic Notion of Genre
Fantasy has played a crucial role in shaping literature since time immemorial. Yet , proper syste matic work on fantasy has not been done until the last century, when scholars began to realize its importance and give it due recognition. First published in 1970, Tzvetan Todorov’s The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Lirerary Genre represents one of the touchstones of critical work on the fantastic genre. His pioneering ideas have inspired lit…
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The Fantastic: Towards a Dynamic Notion of Genre
Fantasy has played a crucial role in shaping literature since time immemorial. Yet , proper syste matic work on fantasy has not been done until the last century, when scholars began to realize its importance and give it due recognition. First published in 1970, Tzvetan Todorov’s The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Lirerary Genre represents one of the touchstones of critical work on the fantastic genre. His pioneering ideas have inspired lit…
Decolonization and Demystification: One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nationhood
This essay aims to explore how the interconnected issues of nationhood and national identity are treated in Gabriel García Márquez's novel Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). Through a discussion of the two basic yet complex themes of reality and history set against the exclusive backdrop of Colombian history, it is also intended to show how the author reinscribes the myth of nationhood by decentering what Jean-François Lyotard …
From Dupin to Oedipa: Thomas Pynchon’s Parodic Take on Detective Fiction
This essay aims to investigate how Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, when juxtaposed with Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin short stories, can be read as a parodic reworking on the genre of detective fiction. By placing the works of the two authors in relation to theoretical lines of detective fiction, the essay intends to highlight how the world-views of the two authors are dis-tinctively formed, especially in terms of a hermeneutical search for ulti…
The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Golden City
Comparative Literature: Recent Debates on an Imagined Discipline
Comparative literature is always a problematic discipline. Scholars from different countries and times such as René Wellek, Charles Bernheimer, Susan Bassnett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Djelal Kadir, have attempted to delimit its scope. The variety of definitions have led to ensuing problems of shifting methodologies and frameworks. If, in the early twentieth century, a scholar tended to interrogate and theorise how one distinguished compar…
The Quest and Reconstruction of Identity in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
This essay aims to explore the issue of identity quest of various characters in Haruki Murakami’s “Kafka on the Shore.” While Hoshino is portrayed as an alienated citydweller, whose identity formation depends on superficial signs produced in consumer society, Satoru Nakata’s identity is noted for its marginalized position as he is unable to make sense of capitalist logic. His viewpoint reveals a hidden side of capitalist society that glorifies su…
The Representation of Consumerism and Identity Formation in Contemporary Thai Literature
As contemporary Thai society has become deeply enmeshed in consumerism and capitalism, with consumption now having been integrated as a way of life, Thai literature, especially those short stories written in the past decade, has touched upon the issue of consumerism in various degrees and aspects. This essay aims to investigate two major issues. Firstly, it aims to analyze how these short stories represent consumerism, especially its mechanisms t…
Bangkok” in Contemporary Thai Literature: Globalization, Tourism, and Comsumerism
The paper aims to investigate how Bangkok is represented in contemporary Thai literature, including those works by such authors of renown as Chamlong Fangcholachit, Prabda Yoon, and Paritas Hutangkul. Through the perspectives of these contemporary authors, Bangkok has been used as a poignant setting to showcase the problems and conditions of urbanism in Thailand. The paper aims to focus on three main issues of representation, which are not comple…
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