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Bangkok bound / Ellen Boccuzzi.

Title
Bangkok bound / Ellen Boccuzzi.
Author
Boccuzzi, Ellen, 1975-
Publication
Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 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
  • Migration, Internal > Thailand > Bangkok
  • Migration intérieure > Thaïlande > Bangkok
  • Migration, Internal
  • Urbanisering > Thailand
  • Thailand > Bangkok
  • Thailand > ekonomiska förhållanden
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-185) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The train -- 3. Nature and the city -- 4. Animals and the city -- 5. Urban mobility -- 6. Return -- 7. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9786162150500
  • 616215050X
LCCN
2013308166
OCLC
  • 828647431
  • SCSB-13228492
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library