Strategies of Marginal People Responses in Short Stories of The Naiin Award

Abstract

This research article is aimed to study Isan characters and marginal people responses in short stories of the Naiin award in order to visualize the methods that Isan characters respond marginal people and to study author’s techniques of marginal people responses.
The results of the study of Isan characters and marginal people responses revealed as follow: 1) Isan characters in short stories of the Naiin award were ambitious to study in higher education to have a good career so that they could raise their family well and avoid to be employed as a cheap labour. 2) Isan characters had created their meanings to struggle with state power and created new meanings of urbanization and ruralization. Isan characters rejected the capital and realized to accept the value of rural because the gorgeous society was a dream. The results of author’s techniques of marginal people responses revealed as follow: 1) Responses through violent, ironic, and sarcastic description or conversation with hurtful and waspish tone. 2) Responses through gentle and compromising description or conversation with sympathetic tone. As the results, two methods of marginal people responses were different. However, marginal people responses of Isan people were serious and sincere.