individual of the concerns raised ...

individual of the concerns raised according to life writing scholars in relation to autobiography has been the way in which globalization leads to "lives" being commodified. (1) I want to examine this claim in relation to Pascal Khoo Thwe's autobiography, From the Land of flourishing Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey, looking at the way in which the commodification of cultivation may lead to the muting of a political message.

The reviews, marketing, and editorial material which invest this autobiography tend to stres the theme of multiple worlds, pointing to an astonishing journey from "a