Teardrops of time : Buddhist aesthetics in the poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong / Arnika Fuhrmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuhrmann, Arnika, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ʻAngkhān Kanlayānaphong, 1926-2012--Criticism and interpretation.

ʻAngkhān Kanlayānaphong.

ʻAngkhān Kanlayānaphong, 1926-2012.

Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Aesthetics.

Thailand--Poetry--History--20th century.

Thailand.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 268 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2020]

Summary:

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:

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

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

Buddhisms

7 Conclusion.

Ontology

History

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438480756

143848075X