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  • Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market

    Edición de O. Dwivedi, L. Lau ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market delves into the influences and pressures of the marketplace on this genre, which this volume contends has been both gatekeeper as well as a significant force in shaping the production and consumption of this literature. ... Leer más

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  • Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English

    de L. Lau, O. Dwivedi ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in English, particularly social realism fiction. ... Leer más

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  • The Taste of Apples

    Traducido por Howard Goldblatt ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius.In "The Two Sign Painters," TV reporters ambush two young workers from the ... Leer más

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  • Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

    Nature, Literature, and the Arts

    de Haruo Shirane ...
    Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this ... Leer más

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  • Nothing

    Three Inquiries in Buddhism

    Series series TRIOS
    Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on "nothing"—essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory ... Leer más

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  • Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet

    Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English

    Series Libro 8 - World Oral Literature Series
    Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and ... Leer más

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  • Obscene Things

    Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei

    de Naifei Ding ...
    In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings of Jin Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual culture. After first appearing around 1590, Jin Ping Mei was circulated among some of China’s best known writers of the time and subsequently was published in three major recensions. A 1695 version by Zhang Zhupo became the most widely read and it is this ... Leer más

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  • For All My Walking

    Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka

    Traducido por Burton Watson ...
    Series series Modern Asian Literature Series
    In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882–1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist monk as well as literary inspiration for his memorable and often painfully moving poems. The works he wrote during this time comprise a record of his ... Leer más

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  • The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature

    Discrimination, Egalitarianism, Nationalism

    Series series Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
    This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society.The term strong refers not just to those with strength and power. It also includes other ideal attributes such as beauty, youth and goodness. Similarly, ... Leer más

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  • The City Trilogy

    Five Jade Disks, Defenders of the Dragon City, and Tale of a Feather

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    Taiwan's most innovative science fiction writer presents three tales of intrigue, espionage, betrayal, political strife, time travel, and Chinese history and mysticism. After thousands of years of civil unrest and countless wars, the weary Huhui people of Sunlon City have once again succumbed to a ruthless and overpowering enemy. In Five Jade Disks, the first book in the trilogy, the imperialistic ... Leer más

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  • Hindi Dalit Literature and the Politics of Representation

    This study explores how Dalits in north India have used literature as a means of protest against caste oppression. Including fresh ethnographic research and interviews, it traces the trajectory of modern Dalit writing in Hindi and its pivotal role in the creation, rise and reinforcement of a distinctive Dalit identity.The book challenges the existing impression of Hindi Dalit literature as ... Leer más

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  • Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures

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    Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. ... Leer más

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