7,025円 English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary worldーits institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoodsーin light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally rec...

11,275円 Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions. Asian diaspora poetry in North Americ...

10,943円 This book is about the popular cinema of North India ("Bollywood") and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses questions about the interface of film and literature, such as how Bollywood movies rework literary themes, offer different (broader or narrower) interpretations, shift plots, stor...

12,933円 Ôe Kenzaburô was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. This critical study examines Ôe’s entire career from 1957 – 2006 and includes chapters on Ôe’s later novels not published in English. Through close readings at different points in Ôe’s career Yasuko Claremont establishes the spiritu...

12,933円 This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only dram...

10,943円 This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental tradition was deeply linked to politics – probably even more than other European ‘Orientalisms’. ...

132円 Extrait : Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout bien caractéristique de l’état de certaines grandes et importantes questions spéculatives, c’est le peu de progrès qu’a fait la discussion sur le critérium du bien et du m...

13,265円 Voices of East Asia provides significant yet accessible readings in translation chosen to stimulate interest in the long and rich cultural history of East Asia, the countries of China, Japan, and Korea. The readings range from ancient to modern, elite to popular, and include poetry, stories, essa...

5,173円 At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture ...

1,913円 The literature of Malaysia and Singapore, the multicultural epicenter of Asia, offers a rich body of source material for appreciating the intellectual heritage of colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Focusing on themes of home and belong, Eddie Tay illuminates many aspects of identity anxiet...

944円 The elegant pen-strokes and visual harmony of Chinese writing have long been admired in the west. Classical Chinese calligraphy is a popular and valuable art form, and with the increasing economic and cultural power of China, its writing is becoming more widely appreciated and understood. In part...

349円 A. Lie-tzeu habitait un cottage, dans la principauté de Tcheng, depuis quarante ans, sans que personne  prît garde à lui ; sans que le prince, ses ministres et ses officiers, vissent en lui autre chose qu’un  homme vulgaire. La famine étant venue à s&ea...