Isan Writers, Thai Literature
Platt, Martin B.![Isan Writers, Thai Literature](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/149/14988976/CHSBZCOP0314988976.jpg)
Regional characteristics and regional language feature prominently in discussions of Thai identity, but there is little mention of regional literatures. In northeastern Thailand’s Isan region, authors write primarily in Thai, but it is possible nonetheless to identify an Isan literature, which played a significant and at times pivotal role in the development of Thai literature in the second half of the twentieth century, as authors grappled ...