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Teardrops of Time:Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angka Kallayanapong
by: Aika Fuhrmann (Author)
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Publication Date: 2021/7/2
Language: English
Print Length: 268 pages
ISBN-10: 1438480741
ISBN-13: 9781438480749
Book Description
Focusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angka Kallayanapong (1926-2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Weste literary modeity. Aika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts Buddhist understandings of time to create a mode Asian aesthetic imaginary. While Angka's poetry conjures the image of an early mode Thai cosmopolitanism, it also pioneers a poetics reflective of present-day globalization. The result is an experiment in Buddhist cosmopolitan aesthetic modeity. Teardrops of Time contextualizes the poet's work in the literary history and cultural politics of his time, tracing the transformation of a mode Thai cultural and political imaginary through the political history of the country's authoritarian goveance since the late 1950s and the exigencies of an increasingly globalized economy since the 1980s. As Angka's work aligns itself with contemporaneous global trends in poetry, the book reads it alongside the work of Paul Celan and Allen Ginsberg.
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Focusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angka Kallayanapong (1926-2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Weste literary modeity. Aika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts Buddhist understandings of time to create a mode Asian aesthetic imaginary. While Angka's poetry conjures the image of an early mode Thai cosmopolitanism, it also pioneers a poetics reflective of present-day globalization. The result is an experiment in Buddhist cosmopolitan aesthetic modeity. Teardrops of Time contextualizes the poet's work in the literary history and cultural politics of his time, tracing the transformation of a mode Thai cultural and political imaginary through the political history of the country's authoritarian goveance since the late 1950s and the exigencies of an increasingly globalized economy since the 1980s. As Angka's work aligns itself with contemporaneous global trends in poetry, the book reads it alongside the work of Paul Celan and Allen Ginsberg.
