Trespasses

Author: Padcha Tuntha-obas

Publisher: O Books (2006)

Writing about and within the differences in language, Tuntha-Obas explores the multifarious ways in which the world is rendered through English and Thai, as well as the renegotiation of language with space, of a native language transformed in the context of writing in the U.S. Transmuting Western canonical texts, such as those of Plato, and invoking subversive, genre-bending writing that traverses continents, such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, trespasses charts out a space that seeks to remain “debordered,” where “words aren’t to be owned. they are / created.”