"An interdisciplinary collection that seeks to explore Thai literature in the wider context of the global perspectives, themes and debates within the study of world literature"-- Provided by publisher.

The Royal Society of Literature, or, the birth of modern cultural authority in Thailand / Thanapol Limapichart -- Through the literary lens : Vajiravudh's writings and Siam's negotiations with the imperial West / Thosaeng Chaochuti -- Mummies, sex and sand : Bangkok gothic and the adventure fiction of "Victorian" Siam / Rachel V. Harrison -- Luk Isan (A child of the North East) : techniques of composition and issues of ethnic culture / Nopphorn Prachakul -- Orientalisation from within and consuming the modern world : rural-urban contact in Thai popular literature of the 1970s / Janit Feangfu -- Chat Kobjitti's The verdict and Somsong's appeal / Chusak Pattarakulvanit -- "Comments from a common slut" : feminist perspectives in the analysis of the modern Thai novel / Kham Phaka -- Gender, sexuality and family in old Siam : women and men in Khun Chang Khun Phaen / Chris Baker and Pasuk Pongphaichit -- Cosmopolitanism and its limits in contemporary Thai novels : a comparative study of Prabda Yoon's Last life in the universe and Anusorn Tipayanond's London and the secret of a kiss / Suradech Chotiudompant.