The Thematic Complexity of Poverty, Relationships, Political Turmoil in Thailand, and Students’ Aspiration in Minfong Ho’s Rice Without Rain

Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader Abu Jweid

Abstract


The purpose of this essay is to explain the themes of poverty, relationships, political turmoil in Thailand, and students’ aspiration in Ho’s Rice Without Rain (1986). The essay focuses on the thematic aspects of the novel in order to demonstrate how it thematically reflects the contemporary national affairs, epically political upheavals and students’ aspiration. The discussion of poverty, relationships, political turmoil in Thailand, and students’ aspiration will be closely related to the way by which Ho perceives the economic deterioration of poor people; and how she offers viable alternatives throughout the narrative structure of the novel. These alternatives are the optimistic narrative events that convey the core of national prosperity by getting rid of political turmoil, and reinforcing students’ aspiration. In doing so, the essay attempts to prove how the themes of poverty, relationships, political turmoil in Thailand, and students’ aspiration could really contribute to the reconciliation of the past and current political unrest in Thailand. Thus. The study’s methodology is descriptive i.e., it sheds light on the narrative description of poverty, relationships, and politics approached in the course of the novel.

 


Keywords


Narrative; Politics; Poverty; Relationships; Students’ aspiration

Full Text:

PDF

References


Abu Jweid, A. (2016). The fall of national identity in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Pertanika, 23(5), 529-540.

Abu Jweid, A. (2020)a. Aversion and desire: The disruption of monolithic ambivalence in Octavia Butler’s Kindred. Studies in Literature and Language, 21(1), 6-15.

Abu Jweid, A. (2020)b. Autobiographical peculiarities in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Studies in Literature and Language, 21(3), 5-9.

Abu Jweid, A. (2020)c. Fear mechanism in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart. Studies in Literature and Language, 21(2), 12-18.

Abu Jweid, A. (2020)d. Naguib Mahfouz’s Arabian Nights and Days: The allegorical sequel of The Arabian Nights. Studies in Literature and Language, 21(2), 91-100.

Abu Jweid, A. (2020)e. Regional Commitment in Eudora Welty’s “Petrified Man”. International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies (IJELR), 7(3), 206-214.

Abu Jweid, A. (2020)f. Time travel as a tool of satiric dystopia in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies (IJELR), 7(3), 100-107.

Abu Jweid, A. (2021)a. Anthropomorphism as an embodiment of natural gothic and man in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. Higher Education of Social Science, 21(2), 30-34.

Abu Jweid, A. (2021)b. The reception of The Arabian Nights in world literature. Studies in Literature and Language, 22(1), 10-15.

Abu Jweid, A. (2021)c. Women individuality: A critique of patriarchal society in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Studies in Literature and Language, 22(2), 5-11.

Abu Jweid, A. (2022)a. Caribbean displacement and the question of oppression and cultural changes of post-colonialism in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River.” Canadian Social Science, 18(2), 17-24.

Abu Jweid, A. N. A. (2021)d. Modernism’s rejection of tradition through literary experimentation in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Cross-Cultural Communication, 17(3), 8-11.

Abu Jweid, A. N. A. (2021)e. The duality of magic and memory as the structure of narrative repetition in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Higher Education of Social Science, 20(2), 25-32.

Abu Jweid, A. N. A. (2021)f. A concise review of anglo-saxon poetry. Canadian Social Science, 17(3), 51-54.

Abu Jweid, A. N. A. (2022)b. Reversed identity, the problem of fake identity, and counter-identity in selected novels by Nadine Gordimer. Canadian Social Science, 18(3), 6-10.

Bushell, Ho, M. (1986). Rice without rain. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books.

Ribó, I. (2019). Prose fiction: An introduction to the semiotics of narrative. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.

Kintanar, T. (1995). Emergent voices: Southeast asian women novelists. Diliman, Quezon City: Univ. of the Philippines Press.

Ribó, S. (2020). Reading and mapping fiction: Spatialising the literary text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/12789

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2022 Author(s)

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.


Share us to:   


 

Online Submissionhttp://cscanada.org/index.php/sll/submission/wizard

Please send your manuscripts to sll@cscanada.net,or  sll@cscanada.org  for consideration. We look forward to receiving your work.


We only use three mailboxes as follows to deal with issues about paper acceptance, payment and submission of electronic versions of our journals to databases: caooc@hotmail.com; sll@cscanada.net; sll@cscanada.org

 Articles published in Studies in Literature and Language are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY).

 STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE Editorial Office

Address: 1055 Rue Lucien-L'Allier, Unit #772, Montreal, QC H3G 3C4, Canada.
Telephone: 1-514-558 6138 
Website: Http://www.cscanada.net; Http://www.cscanada.org 
E-mailoffice@cscanada.net; office@cscanada.org; caooc@hotmail.com

Copyright © 2010 Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture