Abstract:
This thesis is aimed to analyze the postmodern story-telling and concept in contemporary Thai fiction in 1987 2006. The study shows that the selected fiction use the postmodern techniques, such as self-consciousness, anti-form of normative narrative, intertextuality, parody, magic realism and the form of pop fiction, to represent the postmodern concept of the socio-cultural condition and the status of literature.
According to the selected stories, contemporary society is consumer society of late capitalism. The society accumulates simulacra and objects of consumption. Individuals in the society are in agony. They lost their authority and autonomy. The system of value and norms is changed. The change implies the shift of the epoch. On the other hand, contemporary Thai fiction shows the realization of the fictionality and its discursive politics. The former is revelation of the tradition and convention as the framework of art creativity, especially the framework of art for life. The latter is the realization that literature is politics. Contemporary Thai fiction reveal, as well as use, their imaginary linquistic practice as political narrative to construct, reinforce, transmit, contradict and negotiate to thoughts penetrated in society, which distort, suppress or conceal the diversity from acknowledgment.