SEVEN "Comments from a (Post)Feminist Slut" Analysis of the Perspectives in the Kham Phaka Thai Novel The move to link issues of gender, sexual Thai literature and the na tion is an innovative one, little explored to date in Thai literary criticism uces a (post)feminist frame of analysis to the discus- sion of four well-known and highly res date of publication spans the twentieth erary texts whose Real Man, 1928) and Khang-lang phap (Behind century. They include Luk phuchai novels by Kulap Saipradit Painting, 1937-two (pseudo. whose extensive oeuvre has been the subject of sustained critical attention Siburapha, 1905-1974), an author 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. the better known of the two works, its enduring story having been Khang-lang pup is, howev- adapted for screen in two separate film productions in 1985 (dir. Piak Roster) and 2001 (dir. Cherd Songsri) and having alo been translated into English in 1990.2 Yet while Siburapha's work reached particular heights of popularity in the 1970s in the cause for democratic rights and equality, this chapter focuses on the issues of inequality that man ves in the author's treatment of gendered which "good women, associated with upper-class social mores, remain difference, ones in firmly located in the domestic sphere of the home untouched by the heady discourses of (male) citizenship