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Bangkok bound
- Title
- Bangkok bound / Ellen Boccuzzi.
- Author
- Boccuzzi, Ellen, 1975-
- Publication
- Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 2012.
- ©2012
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- Description
- viii, 192 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "With the acceleration of global migration, literature by migrant writers has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level. Migrant literature offers a compelling counter-narrative to abstract visions of globalization, grounding large-scale processes in real-life stories of individuals. In Thailand, migrant writers have documented the social and cultural impacts of fifty years of rural-urban migration through hundreds of stories, poems, and novels. Bangkok Bound is the first book to examine this body of literature and the messages that Thai migrant writers convey about their experiences. These stories powerfully describe the ways in which migrants who leave their homes bound for Bangkok are quickly bound to Bangkok through the transformative force of modern city life. And they show the ways in which those who remain behind in the village are transformed, too, as they struggle to maintain a rural way of life in a rapidly urbanizing world. Bangkok Bound will be of interest to anyone working on migration or urbanization, as well as to scholars of Thailand and Thai literature. Specialists in migration will find it a welcome addition to the growing field of migration studies through examination of narrative fiction."--Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-185) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The train -- 3. Nature and the city -- 4. Animals and the city -- 5. Urban mobility -- 6. Return -- 7. Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JBD 13-291
- ISBN
- 9786162150500 (paperback)
- 616215050X (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2013308166
- OCLC
- 828647431
- Author
- Boccuzzi, Ellen, 1975- Author
- Title
- Bangkok bound / Ellen Boccuzzi.
- Publisher
- Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 2012.
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-185) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JBD 13-291