{"id":33707,"date":"2024-09-30T00:57:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T00:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/rattawut-lapcharoensaps-book-sightseeing-depictions-of-thais-and-thailand-in-literature\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T00:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T00:57:04","slug":"rattawut-lapcharoensaps-book-sightseeing-depictions-of-thais-and-thailand-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/rattawut-lapcharoensaps-book-sightseeing-depictions-of-thais-and-thailand-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattawut Lapcharoensap\u2019s book Sightseeing: Depictions of Thais and Thailand in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\"><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">A. Reading assignments<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\">Please read in Rattawut Lapcharoensap\u2019s book<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"cursor: auto;\">Sightseeing<\/em><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>the stories \u201cFarangs\u201d, \u201cDraft Day,\u201d \u201cPriscilla the Cambodian,\u201d \u201cAt the Caf\u00e9 Lovely\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Let Me Die in This Place.\u201d Rattawut Lapcharoensap is an award-winning Thai-American writer in his 40s whose stories are set in Thailand. In an interview (\u201cClint Eastwood, Summer Love, and Cockfighting,\u201d<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"cursor: auto;\">AsianWeek<\/em>, January 21, 2005) Rattawut Lapcharoensap stated as motivation for his book the following: \u201cMany of the stories&nbsp;were partly born out of a certain frustration with&nbsp;depictions of Thais and Thailand in contemporary&nbsp;English-language literature. The Thailand I often&nbsp;encountered seemed a far cry from &#8216;The Thailand I&nbsp;thought I knew, the Thailand I loved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\"><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">B<\/u><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">. Discussion Board Assignments<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\">All questions relate to Rattawut Lapcharoensap\u2019s book<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"cursor: auto;\">Sightseeing.<\/em>&nbsp; Also, the word count applies to a total of all your answers. You do not need to address the questions in this sequence. As long as your answer addresses all questions asked, you can write one coherent text and do not have to wonder about the numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\">Please answer to the following questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\">What image of Thais and the interaction between Thai and Western culture does Rattawut Lapcharoensap portray in his stories? Please incorporate an example from the stories listed above in your answer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. Reading assignments Please read in Rattawut Lapcharoensap\u2019s book&nbsp;Sightseeing&nbsp;the stories \u201cFarangs\u201d, \u201cDraft Day,\u201d \u201cPriscilla the Cambodian,\u201d \u201cAt the Caf\u00e9 Lovely\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Let Me Die in This Place.\u201d Rattawut Lapcharoensap is an award-winning Thai-American writer in his 40s whose stories are set in Thailand. In an interview (\u201cClint Eastwood, Summer Love, and Cockfighting,\u201d&nbsp;AsianWeek, January 21, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[28],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=33707"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=33707"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=33707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}