SEVEN "Comments from a Common Slut Perspectives in the (Post)Feminist Analysis of the Modern Thai Novel Kham Phaka The move to link issues of gender, sexuality. Thai literature and the na- tion is an innovative one little explored to date in Thai literary criticism. This chapter introduces a (post)feminist frame of analysis to the discus- sion of four well-known and highly respected Thai literary texts whose date of publication spans the twentieth century. They include Luk phuchi A Real Man, 1928) and Klang-lang phap (Behind the Painting, 1937) novels by Kulap Sapradit (pseudo. Siburapha, 1905-1974), an author whose extensive oeuvre has been the subject of sustained critical attention in both Thai and English since he embarked upon a career as a writer journalist and political activist from the late 1920s. Of the two texts Luk phuchai is considered important in the modern Thai literary canon as one of the earliest novels to have been published. Kang-lang phap is, howev er, the better known of the two works, its enduring story having been adapted for screen in two separate film productions in 1985 (dir. Piak Poster) and 2001 (dir. Cherd Songsri) and having also been translated into English in 1990.2 Yet while Siburapha's work reached particul heights of popularity in the 1970s in the cause for democratic rights and class equality, this chapter focuses on the issues of inequality that mani- fest themselves in the authors treatment of gendered difference, ones in which "good" women, associated with upper-class social mores, remain firmly located the domestic sphere of the home, untouched by the heady discourses of (male) citizenship