UID:
edocfu_9961565809902883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 268 pages)
ISBN:
1-4384-8075-X
Content:
Focusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angkarn Kallayanapong (1926–2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Western literary modernity. Arnika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts Buddhist understandings of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary. While Angkarn's poetry conjures the image of an early modern Thai cosmopolitanism, it also pioneers a poetics reflective of present-day globalization. The result is an experiment in Buddhist cosmopolitan aesthetic modernity. Teardrops of Time contextualizes the poet's work in the literary history and cultural politics of his time, tracing the transformation of a modern Thai cultural and political imaginary through the political history of the country's authoritarian governance since the late 1950s and the exigencies of an increasingly globalized economy since the 1980s. As Angkarn's work aligns itself with contemporaneous global trends in poetry, the book reads it alongside the work of Paul Celan and Allen Ginsberg.
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Temporality -- Subjectivity -- Manifestos -- A Cultural History of the 1950s-1980s -- New Perspectives on Buddhism -- Translation, Transnationality, and Political Orientation -- Style and Composition of Translations -- Political Orientations -- Gender -- Chapters -- History of Publishing and Circulation -- 2 Ontology -- The Ontological Status of Time in Buddhism -- Time as Dimension and Destroyer -- The Individual in Time -- Buddhist Notions of Time, Consciousness, and Personhood -- "Dew Drops Are the Tears of Time" -- Conclusion -- 3 History -- The History and Development of Nirat -- Journeys of Identity -- Journeys of Emotion -- Contemporary Nirat -- Art for Life Poetics: Angkarn's Contemporaries -- Poetics and the Nation -- "Sukhothai" as National Ideology and Style of Governance -- Angkarn's Ayuthaya -- The Politics of Poetics: Prosody and the Past -- The Past in Present-Day Poetics -- Angkarn's Poetics -- Bangkok -- Metrical Choices -- Poetic Extremes -- Conclusion -- 4 Subjectivity -- The Pledges -- The Religion of Aesthetics: Suchitra Chongstitvatana -- (Artistic) Subjectivity -- Fragmented Self, Heteroglossic Text -- Contemporary Poets' Poetics (Panithan) -- Conflictual Senses of Self -- Heteroglossic Text -- From Panithan to Panithan / From Pledge to Testament -- 5 Language -- Angkarn Kallayanapong and Paul Celan -- An Idiom for the Losses of Modernity -- Heteroglossia and Dialogism -- Heterogeneous Temporalities -- A Nondoctrinal Religious Poetry -- Eco-Poetics -- Chinese Prose Poetry and the Translocality of Twentieth-Century Literature -- 6 Politics -- The Fact of Translation: The Encounter -- Tracking Ginsberg's Journey to Southeast Asia -- Transnational Buddhist Poetic Ontologies -- Angkor Wat: A Political Journey -- Political Orientations -- Buddhisms -- 7 Conclusion.
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Ontology -- History -- Subjectivity -- Language -- Appendix -- Kawiniphon (Poetry, 1986 [1964]) -- Panithan Khong Kawi (Pledge of the Poet, 1959) -- Laeng Wanakhadi (Devoid of Literature, 1964) -- Ayuthaya (1957) -- Sinlapa Ayuthaya (The Art of Ayuthaya, 1962) -- Ayuthaya Wipayok (The Perishing of Ayuthaya) -- Si Sachanalai (1961) -- Phi Phung Tai (Shooting Star) -- Kalajak (The Wheel of Time, 1960) -- Phlapphlueng (Lily, 1947) -- Sia Jao (Losing You, 1964) -- Om (1952) -- Ku Duang Jai (Redeeming the Heart, 1967) -- Lak Chai (The Grounds of Accomplishment, 1967) -- Jaruek Adid (Inscription from the Past, 1966) -- Lamnam Phu Kradueng (Kradueng Mountain Song, 1969) -- Wela Khue Chiwa (Time Is Life) -- Kala Khue Arai (What Is Time?) -- Su Krasae Chara (Against the Stream of Aging) -- Bangkok Kaeo Kamsuan rue Nirat Nakhon Si Thammarat (Lament for Beloved Bangkok / Nirat Nakhon Si Thammarat, 1978) -- Kroen (Foreword) -- Pakka Thip (The Divine Pen) -- Panithan Kawi (The Poet's Testament, 1986) -- Phutharom (Buddhist Spirit) -- Panithan Kawi (The Poet's Testament) -- Tuen Thoet Lok Manut (Awake, Humanity) -- Unnamed, p. 39 -- Jiaranai Kaeo Mani Haeng Chiwit (Cutting the Crystal Gems of Life) -- Unnamed, p. 75 -- Wiman Nam Khang (Celestial Mansion of Dew) -- Phiang Khru Nueng Ko Muai Samoe Fan (In One Instant Dead, Like in a Dream) -- Yad Nam Khang Khue Namta Khong Wela (Dew Drops Are the Tears of Time, 1987) -- Nimit Nai Sai Rung (Nimitta in the Rainbow) -- Yad Nam Khang Khue Namta Khong Wela (Dew Drops Are the Tears of Time) -- Kawi Sri Ayuthaya -- Sith Isara Seri Khong Puang Pracharat-Prakat Jetanarom 14 Tula Udomsith Isara ("The People's Right to Freedom-Statement of Intention 14 October Rights and Freedom") -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-8073-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781438480756
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