Afterword: Postcolonial Theories and Thai Semicolonial Hybridities
Afterword: Postcolonial Theories and Thai Semicolonial Hybridities
This concluding chapter discusses postcolonial theories of cultural hybridity to delineate some of the main forms of Siamese/Thai responses to the West. It compares Nestor García Canclini's account of the hybrid mestizaje discourse of Latin American Hispanic elites as a mode of hegemonic rule to the nineteenth-century Siamese elite discourse of siwilai (“civilized”). In contrast, at the international level in which Siam's rulers were subordinate to the West, the chapter draws on Homi Bhabha to read siwilai as a hybrid discourse manifesting Thai elites' subaltern resistance to Western imperialism. Both Bhabha's and García Canclini's different accounts of postcolonial cultural hybridity are needed to explain all these patterns of Thai–Western cultural mixing.
Keywords: postcolonial theories, cultural hybridity, Siamese/Thai, Nestor García Canclini, mestizaje, siwilai, Siam, Homi Bhabha, Western imperialism, cultural mixing
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