The Lioness in Bloom (eBook)

Modern Thai Fiction about Women

Susan Fulop Kepner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
281 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91541-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.7.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Voices from Asia
• Reihe/Serie: Voices from Asia
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: Asian Literature • Bangkok • Buddhist • chakri dynasty • cosmopolitan women • Domestic violence • elderly women • Female sexuality • Fiction • Gender • gender oppression • Injustice • international literature • Isolation • Literature • literature in translation • loneliness • Poverty • privilege • rural women • Southeast Asia • spousal abuse • Thai • Thailand • Thai literature • Thai women • Translation • womens issues • womens lives • World literature • young women
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91541-0 / 0520915410
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91541-1 / 9780520915411