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Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Buddhist Aesthetic Modernity
2. Ontology: Time as Conflict: Angkarn Kallayanapong's Buddhist Temporal Modernity
3. History: The Dream of a Contemporary Ayuthaya: Angkarn Kallayanapong's Poetics of Dissent, Aesthetic Nationalism, and Thai Literary Modernity
4. Subjectivity: Modern Manifesto: Poetry as Redemptive-Therapeutic Action in the World
5. Language: Transnational Poetic Modernity: Linguistic Innovation and Religious Borrowings in the Work of Paul Celan and Angkarn Kallayanapong
6. Politics: One Night in Bangkok: Angkarn Kallayanapong and Allen Ginsberg
7. Conclusion: Performing a Redemptive Present
Appendix: Translations of Angkarn Kallayanapong's Work on Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index
