Lioness in Bloom
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A01=Susan Fulop Kepner
asian literature
Author_Susan Fulop Kepner
bangkok
buddhist
Category=FBA
Category=FYB
Category=JBSF1
chakri dynasty
cosmopolitan women
domestic violence
elderly women
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eq_fiction
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eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
female sexuality
fiction
gender
gender oppression
injustice
international literature
isolation
literature
literature in translation
loneliness
poverty
privilege
rural women
southeast asia
spousal abuse
thai
thai literature
thai women
thailand
translation
womens issues
womens lives
world literature
young women
Product details
- ISBN 9780520089037
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
