The Spectre of Modernity and the Modern Spectre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12304995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chusak Pattarakulvanit (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 459-472 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South East Asia Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-828X • E-ISSN: 2043-6874 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5367/sear.2015.0282 |
| OpenAlex | W2737703662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article re-examines the significance of Senee Saowaphong's canonical Thai novel Peesart (The Spectre) in two key ways: by locating this work in the context of the rapid economic and social changes that took place in Thailand after the Second World War, and by identifying the modernist impulse as an underlying novelistic structure that forms and informs the clashes between the aristocrats and the commoners and between the urban and the rural. Employing Bhabha's concept of hybridity and Anderson's double provincialism, the article rereads the novel's protagonist, Sai Seema, an iconic hero of the 1970s Thai student movement, as a hybrid figure. It is the ambivalence and undecidability of this character that destabilizes and subverts the power and authority of Bangkok elites in the text.Keywordsmodernityhybridityurban–rural divideThai literatureSenee SaowaphongThe Spectre (Peesart) Additional informationNotes on contributorsChusak PattarakulvanitAuthor details:Chusak Pattarakulvanit is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Thammasat University, Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200, Thailand. E-mail: [email protected]
Ambivalence · Art · Context (archaeology · HERO · Hybridity · Literature · Media studies · Modernity · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · The arts · Anthropology · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |