The Romance of Siam: A Pocket Guide
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Author: Jai Arun Ravine
Publisher: Timeless, Infinite Light (2016)
The Romance of Siam: A Pocket Guide is a subverted travel guide that interrogates the desire white people have to lose and reinvent themselves in Thailand. Ravine tracks how this ‘white love’ manifests in the tourism industry, popular American media and the western imaginary. Ravine writes, ‘As a person of Thai and white descent, my attempts to connect to Thailand as a place or cultural identity are completely colonized by white desire; writing this book and performing its texts has been a way for me to try to decolonize that relationship.’