13,355円 Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination looks at the myriad ways in which disaster events (both man-made and natural) are perceived and represented in South Asian literature and culture. This book explores the affective mechanisms...

17,016円 This volume brings together emerging approaches and addresses shifting paradigms in Chinese science fiction studies, offering a window on fan cultures, internet fiction, gender, eco-criticism, post-humanism and biomedical discourse. These studies present a “second wave” of Chinese sf studies, re-...

1,364円 本書著重探討客家文學中的語言、族群、性別與歷史敘事，這些主題都是臺灣豐富多元的展現。臺灣在1988年「還我母語運動」之後，啟發了一波又一波的本國語文復振過程。 解嚴後的臺灣，各族群重新思考文化脈絡的傳承與復興，在這個過程中，解構了過去單一標準的語言政策，形成「眾聲喧嘩」的多語局面。文學與政治意識形態的...

310円 Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'Anne of Windy Poplars,' a part of the beloved Green Gables Series, follows the story of Anne Shirley as she takes on the role of a schoolteacher in the quaint town of Summerside. The narrative is beautifully crafted with Montgomery's signature style of vivid imagery and ch...

10,280円 This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, Swarnakumari Devi and Abala Bose interrogated social stereotypes. It presents the first translation of travel writings and letters by Abala Bose, and examines an Indian woman’s c...

9,995円 In der neueren Debatte um das Wechselverhältnis von Religion und Politik hat Japan bislang keine Rolle gespielt; zu Unrecht, wie der vorliegende Band zeigt. Japan dürfte das einzige Land mit polytheistisch geprägter Kultur sein, das dem Imperialismus erfolgreich Widerstand entgegensetzte. Mit dem...

7,077円 Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field of comparative and world literature. Predominantly penned by Thai academics, the collection decentres Thai literary studies in order to move beyond...

12,269円 This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and appreciating classical Chinese poems and the basis for valid aesthetic judgments about poetry. The pleasure derived from art plays a crucial role in people’s evaluation of its worth. This boo...

4,807円 The first comprehensive review of all extant "Italian" chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes "Filipino" Otherness with the unique condition of "Italian" ambivalence and alterity within Europe. This book's contribution to the critical studies of travel is the opening of an...

5,300円 How ordinary forms of writingーincluding manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazinesーshaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the Bri...

24,309円 This book offers a key analysis of the changing perceptions of family in East Asian societies and the dynamic metamorphosis of “traditional” family units through the twentieth century and into the new millennium. The book focuses on investigations of the Asian family as it is represented in liter...

24,309円 This book investigates the ways in which the family unit is now perceived in South and Southeast Asia and the Asian diaspora: its numerous conceptions and the changes it has undergone over the last century and into the new one. The prevailing threads that run through a significant part of the lit...