The Lioness in Bloom: Modern Thai Fiction about Women (Voices from Asia 9)
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Susan Fulop Kepner (Author)
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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.
About the Author
Susan Fulop Kepner has been a Lecturer in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1991. Among the works she has translated from Thai are Letters from Thailand by Botan (1977) and A Child of the Northeast by Kampoon Boontawee (1987). She has also written a book of original prose poems entitled Somebody's Mother (1987).
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- Contributor: Susan Fulop Kepner
- Imprint: University of California Press
- ISBN13: 9780520089037
- Number of Pages: 281
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x18mm
- Packaged Weight: 454
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Release Date: 1996-07-30
- Series: Voices from Asia
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Susan Fulop Kepner has been a Lecturer in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1991. Among the works she has translated from Thai are Letters from Thailand by Botan (1977) and A Child of the Northeast by Kampoon Boontawee (1987). She has also written a book of original prose poems entitled Somebody's Mother (1987).
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